The attribute was initially renamed in ef403beb this way due to
incompatibilities between versions 0.4.x and 0.5.x back in 2010.
Additionally it hinders intuitive discovery of the package, because the
versioned package name is nothing a user would guess.
As we are moving to 0.6.0 this makes little sense anymore.
Related issue #108606.
Nowadays we have multiple outdated versions of Flutter in nixpkgs.
Instead, let's focus in having in having stable versions of Flutter
working.
Users needing to use beta or dev versions of Flutter can use mkFlutter
function, that still exists.
continuation of #109595
pkgconfig was aliased in 2018, however, it remained in
all-packages.nix due to its wide usage. This cleans
up the remaining references to pkgs.pkgsconfig and
moves the entry to aliases.nix.
python3Packages.pkgconfig remained unchanged because
it's the canonical name of the upstream package
on pypi.
The comment at the top of git-and-tools/default.nix said:
/* All git-relates tools live here, in a separate attribute set so that users
* can get a fast overview over what's available.
but unfortunately that hasn't actually held up in practice.
Git-related packages have continued to be added to the top level, or
into gitAndTools, or sometimes both, basically at random, so having
gitAndTools is just confusing. In fact, until I looked as part of
working on getting rid of gitAndTools, one program (ydiff) was
packaged twice independently, once in gitAndTools and once at the top
level (I fixed this in 98c3490196).
So I think it's for the best if we move away from gitAndTools, and
just put all the packages it previously contained at the top level.
I've implemented this here by just making gitAndTools an alias for the
top level -- this saves having loads of lines in aliases.nix. This
means that people can keep referring to gitAndTools in their
configuration, but it won't be allowed to be used within Nixpkgs, and
it won't be presented to new users by e.g. nix search.
The only other change here that I'm aware of is that
appendToName "minimal" is not longer called on the default git
package, because doing that would have necessitated having a private
gitBase variable like before. I think it makes more sense not to do
that anyway, and reserve the "minimal" suffix only for gitMinimal.
This makes it much easier to create customisations around emacs via
the a new convenience passthru attr:
- `emacs.pkgs`: What used to be emacsPackages is now `emacs.pkgs`
The previous versioned names `emacs*Packages` have been moved to
aliases.nix and are now considered deprecated in favour of `emacs*.pkgs`.
Updates calibre version to 5.9.0 by pinning the Python version to 3.
Calibre upgraded to Python 3 since the 5.0 release.
Adds aliases for removed packages.
Fixes#106256.
For in NixOS it is beneficial if both plasma5 and pam use the same Qt5
version. Because the plasma5 desktop may use a different version as the
default Qt5 version, we introduce plasma5Packages.
Starting from Linx 5.6, there is partial upstream support for the Multipath TCP
protocol. There are no downsides to enabling it afaict, since
applications need to opt-in when creating a socket.
From https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/wiki:
"[...] users of regular TCP continue to get the same type of connection and
performance unless MPTCP is requested."
