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xmonad-with-packages: add xmonad-contrib to packages by default #56426

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@catern catern commented Feb 26, 2019

This is more newbie-friendly; a user without much Nix knowledge would
"nix search" for xmonad, see xmonad-with-packages, and just
immediately install it. This basically never works because most xmonad
users use xmonad-contrib. If we add xmonad-contrib to the packages
list for xmonad by default, then the new user's straightforward action
will just work, most of the time.

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Assured whether relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

This is more newbie-friendly; a user without much Nix knowledge would
"nix search" for xmonad, see xmonad-with-packages, and just
immediately install it. This basically never works because most xmonad
users use xmonad-contrib. If we add xmonad-contrib to the packages
list for xmonad by default, then the new user's straightforward action
will just work, most of the time.
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srhb commented Feb 26, 2019

On the other hand, this confuses things when compared to the xmonad NixOS-options: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#enablecontrib

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catern commented Feb 26, 2019

Perhaps that option could be renamed and repurposed to enableExtras? Or, it could be left as it is - AFAIK there's no downside to having a library occur in buildInputs twice.

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Looks good to me, xmonad isn't very useful without -contrib anyways

@infinisil infinisil merged commit 2dd638e into NixOS:master Mar 14, 2019
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