[Nix-dev] python packages and dependencies

[Peter Simons]

Hi Florian,

 > buildPythonPackage happily fetches all dependency of a package defined in
 > setup.py. The dependencies in there are not necessarily fixed to a
 > specific version. Therefore, it's not guaranteed that one and the same
 > nix expression produces the same derivation. How is this handled?

I have noticed that, too, and I'm not about that "feature" either. I assume
that there is a way (command-line flag) to tell 'distutils' to disable
network access? Does anyone know how to do that?

Take care,
Peter