Re: [RFC] [Feature] In project `configuration.scm` allow dependencies to other repos with `configuration.scm`

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 01:25:22PM -0500, Josh Marshall wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have come across a use case that I don't find well addressed.  If I
> am not wrong (and I very well might be) it would be a feature which
> could be of great use.  First sent to a Nix channel, but I think the
> same applies here.
> 
> ```
> I want to use git repos with Nix Flakes in them directly as if they
> were package dependencies in another Flake. I can't seem to find good
> documentation for this. Is it even a thing? The purpose is to improve,
> but not impose perfection or slowdown, on developers or researchers as
> they Nix-ify their projects. The application is that I have a root
> project that needs to be put into a flake, which in turn has a number
> of other projects which are not Nix packages but could feasibly add a
> Nix Flake. The end goal is to be able to set up and package a project
> such that the end result is as easy to replicate for others as
> described here:
> https://obscuratur-in-arena.readthedocs.io/en/latest/A-good-way-to-set-up-your-python-project-using-Nix-Direnv-and-Poetry.html
> ```
> 
> I regret that I must again be someone who just throws more work
> demands into the ether.  The whole "I am finite" thing.

There are a number of projects (like shepherd) which are also setup to
function as a channel. And Guix has the ability for channels to depend
on other channels. So it would be possible to create a package in a
channel which depended on a specific branch (or commit) of shepherd as
it appeared upstream.  Is that the type of thing you mean?


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