nixos, lib: implement relatedPackages option

This allows one to specify "related packages" in NixOS that get rendered into
the configuration.nix(5) man page. The interface philosophy is pretty much
stolen from TeX bibliography.
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Jan Malakhovski
2017-12-07 21:26:35 +00:00
parent 182463dc79
commit 67ec6371d5
3 changed files with 30 additions and 6 deletions
+5 -4
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ rec {
, defaultText ? null # Textual representation of the default, for in the manual.
, example ? null # Example value used in the manual.
, description ? null # String describing the option.
, relatedPackages ? null # Related packages used in the manual.
, type ? null # Option type, providing type-checking and value merging.
, apply ? null # Function that converts the option value to something else.
, internal ? null # Whether the option is for NixOS developers only.
@@ -76,7 +77,6 @@ rec {
getValues = map (x: x.value);
getFiles = map (x: x.file);
# Generate documentation template from the list of option declaration like
# the set generated with filterOptionSets.
optionAttrSetToDocList = optionAttrSetToDocList' [];
@@ -93,9 +93,10 @@ rec {
readOnly = opt.readOnly or false;
type = opt.type.description or null;
}
// (if opt ? example then { example = scrubOptionValue opt.example; } else {})
// (if opt ? default then { default = scrubOptionValue opt.default; } else {})
// (if opt ? defaultText then { default = opt.defaultText; } else {});
// optionalAttrs (opt ? example) { example = scrubOptionValue opt.example; }
// optionalAttrs (opt ? default) { default = scrubOptionValue opt.default; }
// optionalAttrs (opt ? defaultText) { default = opt.defaultText; }
// optionalAttrs (opt ? relatedPackages && opt.relatedPackages != null) { inherit (opt) relatedPackages; };
subOptions =
let ss = opt.type.getSubOptions opt.loc;