On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:52:10AM +, Marc Weber wrote:
> Thus eventually its time to think about which information could be
> shared. Who would join a "software version documentation" project
> allowing people to upload "the most recent version of my software is X,
> and it requires Z, FOO, BA
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:42:50PM +, Marc Weber wrote:
> We should not be against a new option, we should think harder about
> collaborating so that all targets will work - which one is the best fit
> for use cases - future might tell.
Indeed. One of the things that seems (at least to me) wro
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:03:13PM +, Marc Weber wrote:
> Please think the other way round:
> - most linux distributions (exceptions LFS I know about) want to install
> packages
>
> Some packages (such as gnome) have dependency information, but only
> encoded in "configure" scripts or RE
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:52:09AM -0500, Colin Putney wrote:
> 1) Is there a standard place for application installed in the nix store to
> use for variable data?
If it's run by the system (eg started by systemd) then it should
probably be somewhere under /var (often /var/lib, but I've never
unde
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 03:46:20PM -0400, Shea Levy wrote:
> Thoughts on the idea? Any idea for a name for the repo? Eelco, would you
> be able to make the repo if you think this is a good approach?
Is a whole other repo really necessary? Why not just a branch of
nixpkgs?
Matthew
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 07:01:02PM +0400, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> 30 seconds just to list available packages. I guess, then files got
> buffered and things become better.
> Well that's comparable to eix except that when you are looking for a
> specific package it is not necessary to go through _all_
