2022-11-28 Nix team meeting minutes #12

[fricklerhandwerk]

Attendees: @fricklerhandwerk @thufschmitt @Ericson2314 @roberth @tomberek

Agenda

• discuss first three items in To discuss (30 min)
• review first three items in To review (45 min)

Side notes

• @fricklerhandwerk: everyone in favor of removing the improvement label entirely?
  • that label does not add information: every change should be an improvement
  • agreement: yes
  • wait for @edolstra and delete the label if he agrees

Discussion

• Low level `<drvPath>^<outputName>` installable syntax to match existing `<highLevelInstallable>^<outputNames>` syntax by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #4543 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • to review

• `nix flake update --single <name>` is more intuitive than `nix flake lock --update` · Issue #5110 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • postponed, will ask UX experts for help with the underlying issues instead

• Self-contained outputs by ncfavier · Pull Request #7087 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • decision: make the attribute a boolean, not a list. instead of filtering down to a set of references, declare in the derivation that its build output has no references. implementation strategy up to further discussion

Review

• Show stack trace above error message with innermost first by chaoflow · Pull Request #7334 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • decision: assigned to @fricklerhandwerk