contains arbitrary information about a package, like this:
meta = {
homepage = "http://gcc.gnu.org/";
license = "GPL/LGPL";
description = "GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x";
};
The "meta" attribute is not passed to the actual derivation
operation, so it's not a dependency --- changes to "meta" attributes
don't trigger a recompilation.
Now we have to standardise some useful attributes ;-)
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default for legal reasons, but you can enabled it by uncommenting it
in `all-packages-generic.nix', attribute `firefoxWrapper'.
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* Plugins can specify extra directories to be added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
by the Firefox wrapper. The Flash plugin need this since it's
installed from a binary distribution, and so doesn't set the RPATH
properly.
* Moved the MPlayer plugin to a plugins directory.
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