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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-09-27T19·43-0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-09-27T19·49-0400
commit95c74eae269b2b9e4bc514581b5caa1d80b54acc (patch)
treef8f36185fa71202a79ed320e2a413433f957ff63 /src/libutil
parentf46612be96a70a188cd48462ac94089d3e95a36b (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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