nixpkgs/modules/misc/nixpkgs.nix
Eelco Dolstra 6f1b1aefde * Added an option `nixpkgs.config' that allows the Nixpkgs options to
be set from the NixOS configuration.  For instance, you can say

    nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableGeckoMediaPlayer = true;

    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.firefox ];

  but the more interesting application is to apply global overrides to
  Nixpkgs throughout NixOS, e.g.

    nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs:
      { glibc = pkgs.glibc27;
        gcc = pkgs.gcc42;
      };

  would build the whole system with Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2.  (There are
  some issues with "useFromStdenv" in all-packages.nix that need to be
  fixed for packages in the stdenv bootstrap though.)

  The implementation of this option is kind of evil though due to the
  need to prevent a circularity between the evaluation of
  nixpkgs.config and the "pkgs" module argument.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16866
2009-08-26 16:52:38 +00:00

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{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
options = {
nixpkgs.config = pkgs.lib.mkOption {
default = {};
example = {
firefox.enableGeckoMediaPlayer = true;
};
description = ''
The configuration of the Nix Packages collection.
'';
};
};
}