[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17405 - MarcWeber - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: tools/package-management/nix top-level

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:

>> I suggest that you keep such patches local to your Nixpkgs development
>> tree, or in upstream repository (that of Nix, in this case).
>
> By the way, such patches could be done by packageOverrides or somehow
> else in configuration.nix. Such a patch could be useful for others, so
> you could share parts of your config in configurations/ tree.

Right.  Or, if Marc thinks the patch can be generally useful, then it
should be committed (after review) to the Nix repo, not to the Nixpkgs
repository.

Thanks,
Ludo’.