Looks like this is the only way to do what 6258728318
was expected to do that doesn't break things and doesn't look like a complete hack.
The problem is that different `fetch`ers generate very different results (from
archive files to plain source trees) and allowing overriding `src` in top-level
derivation when there is a derived python package is no trivial matter.
This simplifies melpa builder by merging with it my old emacs modes builder,
adds better instructions and support for overrides in emacs-packages.nix,
and renames some emacs-related stuff in all-packages.nix for sanity reasons.
I declare this backwards compatible since direct uses of emacsPackages in
configuration.nix are very unlikely.
postfix 2.11 is much more humane with respect to disk writes since it uses
sockets (which do not change inodes on accesses) instead of fifos (which do).
This change does two things:
* "NixOSizes" environment variables generation. This allows some more
error-checking and opens possibilities for a modular environment
configuration. From now on the most of environment variables are
generated directly by the nix code. Generating sh code that
generates environment variables is left in a few places where
nontrivial access to a local environment state is needed.
* By doing the first change this patch untangles bash from the
environment configuration and makes it trivial to add a support for
other non bash-compatible shells.
Now to the sad part. This change is quite large (and I'm not sure it's
possible to split it) and yet is not quite complete, it needs some
changes to nixpkgs to be perfect.
See !!! comments in modules/config/shells-environment.nix.
Main principle behind this change is "change environment generation
and nothing else". In particular, shell configuration principles stay
exactly the same as before.
To be honest, it's more like "be less discriminating against USB tablets".
USB tablets usually get autodetected, device name is not necessary and defaulting to a serial touchscreen is a clear discrimination.
Unconditionally remapping buttons is generally not a good idea either.
Old defaults transformed into examples.
Previous commit reverted Xen back to 4.0.3 because xend from 4.1.* and newer
hangs for unknown reasons.
The new "xl" toolstack from 4.1.* and unstable works, yet PCI passthrough is not
supported by xl in 4.1.* and is broken in the unstable.
With this patch I was able to passthrough ATI Radeon HD 6950 without 3D
acceleration, though, to both Linux and Windows guests. Which is the best
archived result with Xen PCI passthrough on NixOS after trying out all possible
Xen versions.
Same VGA card works fine if passed through into a guest with KVM (acceleration,
GPGPU, everything works). I should have tried KVM from the start.
Jan Malakhovski