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Document use case: Feature Resolution #2

Closed DavHau closed 1 year ago

DavHau commented 1 year ago

This PR adds documentation for the "Be able to depend on features of other packages (feature resolution)" use case. The document includes:

With this document, we aim to highlight the challenges in feature resolution and provide a basis for further discussions and improvements in Nixpkgs.

DavHau commented 1 year ago

I'm merging this now and am happy to push further adjustments once feedback comes up.

infinisil commented 1 year ago

Also to mention here: https://github.com/nixpkgs-architecture/pkgs-modules/pull/1#issuecomment-1548277593