News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Typing Nix. Parent comment

Re:Typing Nix by jancsika on Friday June 23, 2017 @06:47PM (#14623343)
Is it possible to write a guix package that includes code which redefines the package object?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Typing Nix by codemac on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:39PM (#14659169)
Yes!

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/...

You'll see here that the package emacs-minimal actually inherits from the emacs package definition, and then all fields afterwards are essentially overwrites of whatever was in the emacs package.

Unfortunately, I just noticed that the manual alludes to this, but actually never explicitly documents it in the "Defining Packages" section :/

[ Parent | on HN ]