Specify packages available to task

[szlend]

I'd like to be able to specify a list of packages available to a task.

So instead of:

tasks = {
  "check:taplo-fmt" = {
    exec = "${pkgs.fd}/bin/fd --hidden --extension=toml --exec-batch ${pkgs.taplo}/bin/taplo format --check";
  };
};

You could write something like this:

tasks = {
  "check:taplo-fmt" = {
    packages = [ pkgs.fd pkgs.taplo ];
    exec = "fd --hidden --extension=toml --exec-batch taplo format --check";
  };
};

The packages option might be confusing together with the existing option tasks.<name>.package which could imo be renamed to something like tasks.<name>.entrypoint or tasks.<name>.interpreter.

[domenkozar]

@szlend would you expect those packages to be an addition to top-level packages option?

[szlend]

@szlend would you expect those packages to be an addition to top-level packages option?

I would expect them to be independent to minimize the closure size in CI where tasks would execute. That's how it currently works, right? Or at least make it configurable to disable inheriting from global packages.