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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#32339: Nix import
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:06:09 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Hello,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Omitting the "--strict" flag is not a solution, since then lazy evaluation
> leads to most interesting fields of the result being empty (the return st=
ring
> value is "<CODE>").

Do we know exactly why Nix stack-overflows?  Perhaps we=E2=80=99re evaluati=
ng
fields we shouldn=E2=80=99t evaluate?

It used to work :-), so something must have changed in the Nix
evaluation rules or in how Nixpkgs attribute sets are written.  We
should ask the Nix folks for guidance.

Ludo=E2=80=99.