[Nix-dev] Fwd: [caskroom/homebrew-cask] Added nix 1.11.5 (#28531)

zimbatm zimbatm at zimbatm.com
Fri Jan 6 21:17:28 CET 2017


No not that I know of. It would be awkward to maintain because homebrew
expects to be installed in /usr/local and not in the /nix/store. It works
the other way around because homebrew casks don't try to maintain anything
and just unpack and run an install script.

On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 at 19:58 Jörg Thalheim <joerg at higgsboson.tk> wrote:

> I actually mean the other way around.
>
>
> On 2017-01-06 20:57, zimbatm wrote:
> > Yes that's the package. It installs nix with the nixpkgs-unstable
> channel. It does basically the same thing as `curl
> https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh` but also provides an uninstall step.
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 at 19:21 Jörg Thalheim <joerg at higgsboson.tk <mailto:
> joerg at higgsboson.tk>> wrote:
> >
> >     Will there be a homebrew package for nixpkgs?
> >
> >
> >     On 2017-01-06 19:40, zimbatm wrote:
> >     > For the lulz I packaged nix for homebrew cask. Now you can `brew
> cask install nix`. Anyways, what I wanted to highlight is that the
> contributiob process was quite nice, there are probably some ideas that we
> could take from them.
> >     >
> >     > There is a clear path to contribution starting from the README.md
> which links to the right document. Also `brew cask create nix` was all I
> needed to get the new package description opened in my $EDITOR.
> >     >
> >     > When they rejected the package it was with a link to a clear
> document that lists the inclusion criteria. This also helped me appeal and
> ultimately revert the decision by sharing some missing context.
> >     >
> >     > Finally during the review, the reviewer was pushing style fixes to
> the PR. It was probably as quick as leaving a comment and made the whole
> process much more inclusive, we were actually working together to get this
> merged.
> >     >
> >     > These are just some highlights. In general I find that homebrew
> has a good focus on usability.
> >     >
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> >     > Subject: Re: [caskroom/homebrew-cask] Added nix 1.11.5 (#28531)
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