- Past meeting notes
- Recording
- Matrix announcement
- Recorded by: @infinisil
- Lead by: @infinisil
- Meeting notes by:
- Present members: @infinisil @Ericson2314 @tomberek @growpotkin @roberth
Notes
Stick to default.nix
Arguments brought up by @Sandro:
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Generally the Fun prefix is used when constructing complex things like package sets like
passthruFun
orkernelConfigFun
- Acknowledged, but not a problem
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Makes the transition needlessly harder
- People have to learn something new anyways
- We can have a good error message
- Good to bundle minor changes to avoid churn
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Every guide on the internet will suddenly be wrong in two ways
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If the package should be build from the cli without the boiler plate code then the following would need to be used
nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; callPackage pkgs/unit/hell/hello/pkg-fun.nix {}'
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@infinisil: The above is an ugly hack
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@infinisil: Can do good error messages
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@roberth: make clear that avoiding
default.nix
forcallPackage
things is a (minor) goal, not just an incidental changes.
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If it [also having modules and other package-related Nix files in the unit dirs] isn’t the goal of the RFC then it shouldn’t be changed to keep the RFC smaller in size and less topics to discuss and bikesheed about.
- @roberth & @Ericson2314: The “back half” of the RFC (alternatives, future work, etc.) is supposed to discuss the wider context.
- @infinisil: Still, since we said do say we intend to keep the unit directory structure unstable, there isn’t a strong reason to “think ahead” like this.
- @roberth: We could move to “future work” and merely reference in the alternatives section.
- @Ericson2314: +1
Allow variants in all-packages to use unit directories by roberth · Pull Request #27 · nixpkgs-architecture/simple-package-paths · GitHub
- “full variants” (need more files in the same unit) is out of scope
- “light variants” (call the same unit (same
pkg-fun.nix
)) can be in scope. - No
args.nix
for now - The requirements are up-to-date but
- Mention that all-packages should only
callPackage
thepkg-fun.nix
though, as this is the only public interface of the unit.
- Mention that all-packages should only
Looking over the automatic draft PR
-
res
is gone! - beware of case-folding!
- just need to case-fold sharding dirs
- the unit dirs themselves can stay original