| 28 Jan 2024 |
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| @jade_:matrix.org | something I've found often very difficult to work with while doing nixpkgs work that i was reminded of in a recent review by infinisil and Robert Hensing (roberth) is that stuff that's not lib and is in fact packaging related is all slammed into all-packages.nix in the flat namespace with a bunch of packages that are not special
I'm wondering if stuff like fetchers, recurseIntoAttrs, newScope, pkgs.path and so on should get a new secondary namespace to make them easier to find out about.
also as an example, stuff like nix-update isn't obvious to new contributors who don't have long standing dms with raito to be told about them :p | 23:57:26 |
| 29 Jan 2024 |
 infinisil | jade_ Yeah fully agreed! I think we should totally have separate namespaces for the different "type" of values | 00:05:19 |
| infinisil | Kind of like a very primitive type system haha | 00:05:32 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | maybe the way to think about it also is how an ideal reference documentation would look | 00:09:33 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | and then organize based on how you'd think about that | 00:09:44 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | like fetchers, scopes, misc, idk | 00:10:32 |
| infinisil | 💯 | 00:10:50 |
| infinisil | pkgs/by-name is one small step in that direction, because that's a place where only packages are allowed, putting e.g. functions in there isn't allowed by CI | 00:11:26 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | yes good | 00:11:36 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | oh also i found a use for the isFlake feature even if my pkgs path thing gets canned: improving the errors for stuff where we ask for env-vars for broken, insecure, or proprietary packages | 00:24:04 |
 K900 | pkgs/by-name/c-/c-periphery/package.nix | 07:53:15 |
| K900 | That's a funny edge case | 07:53:17 |
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