[Nix-dev] *Use, *Support, etc.

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Mon Apr 26 11:54:02 CEST 2010


Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Mon Apr 26 06:19:29 +0000 2010:
> Hi!
> 
> There are quite a few styles: guiSupport, perlBindings, useQt4, etc. What do 
> you think about unifying the names? In the future this will allow us to have 
> something like "global use flags" (I mean, nixpkgs.config.uses.useQt4 can 
> pass useQt4 to all packages that request it).

Should this look like nixos options so that you can deprecate options or
say something was renamed?  Maybe that's overkill ?

If you change too many "useflags" you'll have to rebuild very much.

I've started a section "open issues" on the wiki. Maybe this topic is a
nice amendment.

See _development_ -> open issues:derivation styles.

Marc Weber



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