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Nixpkgs gardening #77

Open infinisil opened 5 months ago

infinisil commented 5 months ago

Nixpkgs is a mess, let's clean it up a bit! There's things like:

Various inconsistencies in lib
Unformatted files https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/322520
Others stuff?

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stepbrobd commented 5 months ago

This is kinda irrelevant, feel free to ignore

I'd love to learn how would you implement a string mutation function in Nix. For example, a kebab-case to camelCase function (I really don't like how it's implemented)

Thanks!

infinisil commented 5 months ago

Opened a PR for the lib cleanup from today: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/321283 :)