Mathnerd314 writes:
>> 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".
well, I suppose I'll have to read the Nix source code that generates KDE
stuff then to find o
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Peter Simons wrote:
> But how many people understand "callPackage"?
Interesting question. The commit logs suggest between 10-20 people could
write it themselves.
Arguably everyone who has read
http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2014/09/nix-pill-13-callpackage-design-p
Mathnerd314 writes:
>> "haskellPackages" provides the foundation that other package sets
>> override according to their needs. As of today, this approach
>> requires approximately 25,000 overrides.
>
> The vast majority are [...] auto-generated and repeated in each LTS
> file. Excluding thos
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Peter Simons wrote:
> The Problem
> ---
>
> override: "haskellPackages" provides the foundation that other package
sets
> override according to their needs. As of today, this approach requires
> approximately 25,000 overrides.
I count 443442 overrides (roug
