sternenseemann

Es gibt auch Leute, die nicht PulseAudio benutzen und/oder Lennart nicht mögen.

Bitter.

Appears only the upper bound needs to be relaxed.

In principle there is no reason why we can't use that for special pkg-config specific code in `distribution-nixpkgs`. This does, however, not mean that we can drop the `libNixName` code,...

> I suppose a similar `libPackages` may be a welcome addition then? It could follow the same pattern. Have my reservation about this idea, but I think it's a question...

Passing in a JSON lookup table was going to be my answer anyways for [RFC 109](https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109). The lookup table would be used at generation time though, no need to generate...

`synopsis` is mapped to `description`. Also mapping `description` to `longDescription` may not be a good idea for nixpkgs, as it would probably dramatically inflate the size of the already huge...

I was aiming to revisit the fetching code soon in order to find a cleaner solution for https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/pull/585, so it may not make sense yet to add a new feature...

Can you paste the log here? Seems to have disappeared.

I expect this will quite significantly inflate the size of the already huge `hackage-packages.nix` in nixpkgs, so it may not be a good idea even though it has some merits.