[Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

[Daniel Peebles]

Adding another -1 to flattening all directories. I think the
categories/directories could make more sense than they do today, and that
all-packages.nix should be abolished (use builtins.readDir by default and a
manual overrides file where necessary), but throwing away all structure
because it isn't perfect seems excessive. I personally have found browsing
the folders quite informative, even if sometimes it's unclear where a new
package belongs.


On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @Luca:
>> Why haproxy is more a tool and sigproxd is more application than tool?
>> ./tools/networking/haproxy
>> ./applications/networking/siproxd
>> Why there is no common networking category? (simple, because most
>> programs match multiple categories)
>>
>
> I'm ok with flattening that, maybe I wasn't clear.
>
>
>> Same for "groups", why gnome-terminal is more gnome and not more terminal?
>>
>
> Because I maintain gnome-terminal and I want that in the gnome directory
> as it's easier for my way of maintaining those packages.
>
>
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