| 20 Feb 2024 |
szlend | * Getting rid of splicing is literally my #1 nixpkgs wishlist | 20:35:48 |
K900 | I think we will be able to move into that direction a lot easier after the by-name migration | 20:36:08 |
szlend | * Getting rid of splicing is literally #1 on my nixpkgs wishlist | 20:36:30 |
K900 | Because then we can just do package-v2.nix or whatever with the new API | 20:36:39 |
K900 | Without having to fight all-packages.nix merge conflicts for months | 20:36:59 |
Minijackson | note that weirdly enough, splicing is a solution to the flake packages.${arch} issue: https://github.com/szlend/nix-pkgset | 20:37:02 |
szlend | Yeah, this is just me trying to follow whatever patterns are established by nixpkgs because I didn't feel like reinventing the wheel | 20:37:39 |
K900 | It's not | 20:37:44 |
K900 | Well it kinda is | 20:37:51 |
K900 | But it's still a hack | 20:37:55 |
K900 | I have ideas but that's a conversation for much later | 20:38:06 |
| 26 Feb 2024 |
Philip Taron (UTC-8) | infinisil: I'm on deck to take a look through your by-name PR today. It's hefty! | 17:27:46 |
infinisil | Philip Taron (UTC-8): Thanks and agreed! | 17:29:10 |