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Add niv branches traking the branches from nixpkgs #328
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I think the current solution is fine as long as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nmattia/niv/master/data/nixpkgs.json is reliably updated. (Ideally it wouldn't depend on just the small maintainership of the niv project and nixpkgs itself would supply a more general mechanism) The only bit missing I think is the ability to have a setup that will jump from release x to release x+1 on a (this discussion is really meta and hurts my brain) |
I just realized that I had misunderstood what you meant all along. I was thinking of the
I like this idea. It would the default behavior but it could be under a command line flag or something. |
Yeah this is what I meant by the meta-ness hurting my brain. |
There seems to be some interest for niv having branches compatible with the release branches of nixpkgs. (See #311)
However, I'd like to ask if it is worth it? Would it really be that useful? In theory, people can already install niv via nixpkgs and have a compatible version that way.
If you have a use case for this feature, please tell us in the comment bellow.
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