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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-09-27T19·43-0400 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-09-27T19·49-0400 |
commit | 95c74eae269b2b9e4bc514581b5caa1d80b54acc (patch) | |
tree | f8f36185fa71202a79ed320e2a413433f957ff63 /src/libutil | |
parent | f46612be96a70a188cd48462ac94089d3e95a36b (diff) |
Allow dashes in identifiers
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a package is usually equal to the package name. However, this doesn't work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common. The convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib" becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying. So now dashes are valid in variable / attribute names, allowing you to write: dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { }; and buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ]; Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this is unambiguous.
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