nmattia / niv

Easy dependency management for Nix projects
https://github.com/nmattia/niv
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Add support for patches #302

Open fooker opened 3 years ago

fooker commented 3 years ago

niv should allow to apply local patches for sources. This would avoid to maintain a tree for sources that exist only to track patches.

I can think of multiple ways to implement this:

I would prefer the first option and would be happy to work on an implementation if this is an acceptable approach.