[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r29021 - nixos/trunk/modules/misc

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 14:27, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nicolas Pierron <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> What I can suggest is a paradigm shift for ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix which
>> would use a module like syntax, where the whole file is a function,
>
> It’s been the case for a long time already.  Or did you mean something
> different?

I mean:


{pkgs, ...}:

{
  git = pkgs.git {
    opt_svn = true;
    opt_ui = true;
  };

  mercurial = pkgs.mercurial {
     python = pythonFull;
  };

  # This is almost the idea behind Gentoo attributes
  opt_svn = false; # global setting.
  mysql = null; # don't use mysql
}

-- 
Nicolas Pierron
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