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| author | Luc Perkins <lucperkins@gmail.com> | 2022-10-26 15:03:19 -0300 |
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| committer | Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com> | 2022-10-29 10:50:29 -0700 |
| commit | 0c738e2e1826e8347b32a5649bdae2ccb23f2a8a (patch) | |
| tree | 569efa4f56a24e372eb54af4f982bad01599835b /flake.nix | |
| parent | audacity: build in release mode (diff) | |
| download | nixpkgs-0c738e2e1826e8347b32a5649bdae2ccb23f2a8a.tar.gz | |
doc: add code comment clarifying the meaning of legacyPackages
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix index 67ecfc6eb084..4c9ad799a003 100644 --- a/flake.nix +++ b/flake.nix @@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ }).nixos.manual.x86_64-linux; }; + # The "legacy" in `legacyPackages` doesn't imply that the packages exposed + # through this attribute are "legacy" packages. Instead, `legacyPackages` + # is used here as a substitute attribute name for `packages`. The problem + # with `packages` is that it makes operations like `nix flake show + # nixpkgs` unusably slow due to the sheer number of packages the Nix CLI + # needs to iterate through. But when the Nix CLI sees a `legacyPackages` + # attribute it displays `omitted` instead of iterating through all + # packages, which keeps `nix flake show` on Nixpkgs reasonably fast, + # though less information rich. legacyPackages = forAllSystems (system: import ./. { inherit system; }); nixosModules = { |