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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 (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/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. |
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applications | ||
build-support | ||
data | ||
desktops | ||
development | ||
games | ||
misc | ||
os-specific | ||
servers | ||
shells | ||
stdenv | ||
test | ||
tools | ||
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auto-packages.nix |