Re: [Nix-dev] Stackage Support Will Be Discontinued

2016-06-10 Thread Mathnerd314
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Peter Simons wrote: > Fellow Haskell Hackers, > > once the LTS 7.x package set comes out, I intend to make the following > changes in "master": > > - haskellPackages will loosely follow the most recent LTS release, > > where "loosely" means that we'll honor the man

Re: [Nix-dev] Did we just get windows support for free?

2016-03-30 Thread Mathnerd314
e it will still be useful for compiling GUI things (e.g. SDL games). -- Mathnerd314 On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Mathnerd314 wrote: > The talk was scheduled before today; I think it's too early for April. > > https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/C906 > > What'

Re: [Nix-dev] Did we just get windows support for free?

2016-03-30 Thread Mathnerd314
package manager. -- Mathnerd314 On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Kosyrev Serge <_deepf...@feelingofgreen.ru > wrote: > Kevin Cox writes: > > Hello Nixers, > > > > Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will have a Linux ABI. What this > > means is that it will be

Re: [Nix-dev] On nixpkgs and reasonable code size

2016-02-22 Thread Mathnerd314
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Mathnerd314 wrote: > What happened to the rule of "Don't keep generated files in version > control"? > Previous discussion: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/18615 3 months and no pro

Re: [Nix-dev] On nixpkgs and reasonable code size

2016-02-22 Thread Mathnerd314
checks, it can pull all versions from gnu.org in 2 seconds: https://github.com/Mathnerd314/nixpkgs/commit/8563a48caf197118bf13757f344baed129593730 But there is no real way to integrate it into NixOS at present, because updates still have to go through a pull request first. If the nixpkgs repo s

Re: [Nix-dev] Call for input method PR review

2016-02-21 Thread Mathnerd314
/Character_reference/-0FFF The glyphs by themselves are not everything; there are some missing combining forms and ligatures, the kerning/sizing seems weird, and of course "artistic quality" must be considered, so feel free to package more. -- Mathnerd314 On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:40

Re: [Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

2016-01-07 Thread Mathnerd314
e current giant-file system is fine (other than that GitHub doesn't index it). -- Mathnerd314 ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

2016-01-07 Thread Mathnerd314
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > > > 2016-01-08 1:28 GMT+00:00 Mathnerd314 : > >> Hosting seems like a good index but there might be something else (month >> project was founded?). >> > wow :-) Maybe first letter? > Yeah, I guess alphab

Re: [Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

2016-01-07 Thread Mathnerd314
ythonPackages-. > > How would we do something like 'buildInputs = with pythonPackages; > [pycrypto]; ' > with that kind of system? I imagine things would get very verbose very > quickly. > We would still have all-packages.n

Re: [Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

2016-01-07 Thread Mathnerd314
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > 2016-01-08 0:37 GMT+00:00 Mathnerd314 : > >> >> I would suggest doing it by hosting site / provider: all KDE packages in >> one directory, all GNOME in another, GNU in a third, SourceForge in a >> fourth, Kerne

Re: [Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

2016-01-07 Thread Mathnerd314
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > What do you think about moving all packages into flat namespace? > GitHub limits directories to 1000 files, for example here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/test/run-pass We definitely have more than that in nixpkgs, so some

Re: [Nix-dev] Store nixpkgs licenses as JSON instead of .nix

2015-12-13 Thread Mathnerd314
ormation to the licenses we have in nixpkgs. >>> >> Why not have a big hardcoded table, like in cabal2nix? https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/blob/master/distribution-nixpkgs/src/Distribution/Nixpkgs/Haskell/FromCabal/License.hs Then you would not need Nixpkgs's license list

Re: [Nix-dev] Real documentation, aka "Let's kill the wiki"

2015-11-20 Thread Mathnerd314
e he went to Africa was that he hadn't practiced listening or making complete sentences; some extra hours with a native brought it to an acceptable level. The applicability of said anecdote to NixOS is left as an exercise for the reader. -- Mathnerd314 _

Re: [Nix-dev] How to move /nix into /usr?

2015-11-10 Thread Mathnerd314
ttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/3192 of what is needed for /etc. For root login and /etc/passwd in particular you can set users.mutableUsers=false and security.initialRootPassword. -- Mathnerd314 ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Function Application To Escape Override Hell

2015-10-15 Thread Mathnerd314
is exactly what this thread is about! Would > you care to elaborate how exactly that would work for Haskell packages > in your proposal? > I'm not sure how to elaborate beyond saying "Do it like the KDE stuff". I could do a pull request, if that counts. -- Mathne

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Function Application To Escape Override Hell

2015-10-14 Thread Mathnerd314
ntrib" "HUnit" "QuickCheck" "quickcheck-instances" "text" ], "description": "A Lua language interpreter embedding in Haskell", "license": "mit" } The package sets then

Re: [Nix-dev] how does NixOS ensure focus?

2014-07-27 Thread Mathnerd314
. I've been thinking about writing some core changes, and shlevy has started on a Haskell rewrite ( https://github.com/shlevy/hnix-store/), but in the meantime it is indeed a one-man project with random contributions, following the "focus by limiting core developers" criteria.

[Nix-dev] Fwd: Reminder about nixpkgs branches

2014-07-24 Thread Mathnerd314
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 24/07/14 21:32, Mathnerd314 wrote: > > Here it's really more appropriate to use nix-env (i.e. the imperative > package > management style), which makes it easy to mix packages from different >

Re: [Nix-dev] Reminder about nixpkgs branches

2014-07-24 Thread Mathnerd314
else - picking versions, running programs, calculating/storing hashes, etc. Anyways, I filed https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/296 a week ago, and received no response besides Dolstra tagging it as "feature" and "Nix 2.0". So my conclusion is that nobody

Re: [Nix-dev] Cinnamon quitting

2013-12-21 Thread Mathnerd314
rror: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724555 Patch was here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706835 So for Cinnamon, deleting lines 29 and 30 of https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/blob/master/configure.ac#L29 ought to work... -- Mathnerd314 ___

Re: [Nix-dev] Distribution compatibility

2012-12-15 Thread Mathnerd314
ix >> to understand those. After that it's a question of whether the >> infrastructure is up to it; even if Nix works perfectly (which it won't; >> it doesn't have any sort of SAT solver but just brute-forces things, >> correct?), Hydra will run out of disk

[Nix-dev] Distribution compatibility

2012-12-12 Thread Mathnerd314
the actual packages. Thoughts? Reasons this won't work that I'm missing? -- Mathnerd314 ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev