[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17478 - NicolasPierron - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/lib

[Nicolas Pierron]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:40, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
>> Log:
>> the tryEval builtin does not have a strict evaluation. Add the toXML
>> builtin to force the evaluation of the configuration value.  Thus the
>> success flag returned by tryEval corespond to the success of the
>> whole evaluation.
>
> Not sure what you are doing here, but doesn't this make configuration evaluation
> much stricter than it needs to be?

The configuration evaluation is left untouched, I've just exported a
strict evaluation of the configuration inside the option.  This is
only used to analyse options, not to compute the configuration of the
system.

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Nicolas Pierron
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