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| author | Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl> | 2022-04-07 11:05:28 +0200 |
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| committer | github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-04-30 10:23:59 +0000 |
| commit | aec730a0af4c977513ce28236cbecaca72af6901 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b2df0989a666add01081b79beaf5f1916be521b | |
| parent | Merge pull request #170862 from NixOS/backport-170760-to-release-21.11 (diff) | |
| download | nixpkgs-aec730a0af4c977513ce28236cbecaca72af6901.tar.gz | |
pkgs: Add _type = "pkgs"
(cherry picked from commit ad1e2500efd0aa49b0dc7427bf69d4879f3b0ff5)
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix index 8abb503e5554..ff624b9f9021 100644 --- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix +++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix @@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ res: pkgs: super: with pkgs; { + # A module system style type tag + # + # Allows the nixpkgs fixpoint, usually known as `pkgs` + # to be distinguished nominally. + # + # pkgs._type == "pkgs" + # pkgs.pkgsStatic._type == "pkgs" + # + # Design note: + # While earlier stages of nixpkgs fixpoint construction + # are supertypes of this stage, they're generally not + # usable in places where a `pkgs` is expected. + # (earlier stages being the various `super` variables + # that precede all-packages.nix) + _type = "pkgs"; # A stdenv capable of building 32-bit binaries. On x86_64-linux, # it uses GCC compiled with multilib support; on i686-linux, it's |