Wrappers vs. Dotfiles: Difference between revisions
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The disadvantage of this way is that it doesn't propagate man pages and other paths from the old derivation. | The disadvantage of this way is that it doesn't propagate man pages and other paths from the old derivation. | ||
Please refer to [[Nix_Cookbook#Wrapping_packages]] to possible solutions to retain all outputs. | Please refer to [[Nix_Cookbook#Wrapping_packages]] to possible solutions to retain all outputs. | ||
You can use this simple function which takes care of wrapping the script & symlinking | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix"> | |||
writeShellScriptBinAndSymlink = name: text: super.symlinkJoin { | |||
name = name; | |||
paths = [ | |||
super."${name}" | |||
(super.writeShellScriptBin name text) | |||
]; | |||
}; | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
=== Downside of the Wrapper Approach === | === Downside of the Wrapper Approach === | ||