| 5 Jun 2021 |
 sterni (he/him) | recursive nix doesn't exist | 13:39:08 |
| sterni (he/him) | it is something that has been proposed since forever but isn't supported currently | 13:39:24 |
| sterni (he/him) | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13#issuecomment-328339035 | 13:39:39 |
| sterni (he/him) | * https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13 | 13:39:45 |
 toonn | Have I been bamboozled? https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3205 | 13:39:48 |
| sterni (he/him) | or me :thonking: | 13:40:59 |
 maralorn | Well I think currently haskell.nix and nixpkgs use different ghcs. that makes them super incompatible. I think the desirable goal of unification would be, that users could use nixpkgs to build their packages with a cabal build plan which reuses all derivations which match that are currently in nixpkgs. | 13:41:58 |
| maralorn | I am not even convinced that it would be very hard to do that with cabal2nix. | 13:43:34 |
| toonn | You can use whatever GHC with haskell.nix (within limits). I assume Nixpkgs would build their own. | 13:43:42 |
| sterni (he/him) | toonn: that pr is only in nixUnstable, is it? | 13:43:52 |
| maralorn | sterni (he/him): Surely | 13:44:00 |
| toonn | Yeah. | 13:44:02 |
| sterni (he/him) | ah yeah | 13:44:07 |
| sterni (he/him) | so it doesn't exist | 13:44:13 |
|  ic.rbow joined the room. | 13:46:19 |
| sterni (he/him) | I really hate that apparently everything I want to do to hackagen2ix means touching distribution-nixpkgs nowadays | 14:20:31 |
| sterni (he/him) | in other news: https://github.com/peti/distribution-nixpkgs/pull/11 | 14:20:34 |
| sterni (he/him) | (also need to fix CI) | 14:20:40 |
| maralorn | sterni (he/him): Can you remind me again why this use of with could be harmful? | 14:22:03 |
