Add readdir primop #235
Add readdir primop #235
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This is useful for things like nix-make, and may make nixpkgs's organization cleaner
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It should be named Also, I don't want to merge this until the use case is more concrete (how "may" it make Nixpkgs organization cleaner?). |
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The main use case I envisioned was for nix-make, similar to how you use The nixpkgs organization thing was mostly about possibly getting rid of most of |
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@edolstra Does my explanation help? |
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+1 on this feature by itself. Also hope this will make enumeration of packages in all-packages.nix obsolete. |
There are zillions of lines of the form
foo = callPackage ../bla/foo { };
in all-packages.nix. To get rid of this verbosity, you can now list
such packages in pkgs/auto-packages.nix. This is just a list of
package file names, e.g.
development/libraries/libogg
development/libraries/libvorbis
tools/archivers/gnutar
If the package needs non-default function arguments, or if its
intended attribute name is different from its file name, then you
cannot put it in auto-packages.nix and instead need to specify it in
all-packages.nix.
If Nix had a glob function (NixOS/nix#235), we
could even get rid of auto-packages.nix and have package expressions
be discovered automatically. However, that might not be desirable
because of the need to traverse the file system to find packages we
may not even use.
…ser-0.17.0 chore(deps): bump myst-parser from 0.16.1 to 0.17.0
these should really wait for networks to come up, otherwise they can fail. fixes NixOS#235 Change-Id: I08989e8bdb0de280df74660ac43983de5c34fa9d
This is useful for things like nix-make, and may make nixpkgs's organization cleaner