[Nix-dev] Kernel/libc coupling

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Shea,

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> skribis:

> Author: shlevy
> Date: Fri Sep 30 15:34:37 2011
> New Revision: 29546
> URL: https://ssl.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=29546&sc=1
>
> Log:
> Have the kernel headers be a linuxPackage, use the current linuxPackage's headers

I think you don’t want to do it because this would create more coupling
than needed between Linux and the GNU libc, and because it would
increase the frequency of full rebuilds (LTS Linux releases are more
frequent than stdenv updates in Nixpkgs.)

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.