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Remove warning that interpretation of .drv has changed#11878

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@roberth roberth commented Nov 13, 2024

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This was first tagged as 2.15.0, 1½ years ago; plenty of time for everyone to catch up.

By now, the warning is causing more confusion than that it is helpful, because passing a .drv or drvPath has legitimate use cases.

I propose to also backport to 2.24.

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This was first tagged as 2.15.0, 1½ years ago; plenty of time for
everyone to catch up.

By now, the warning is causing more confusion than that it is helpful,
because passing a `.drv` or `drvPath` has legitimate use cases.
@roberth roberth added new-cli Relating to the "nix" command backport 2.24-maintenance labels Nov 13, 2024
@roberth roberth requested a review from edolstra as a code owner November 13, 2024 15:33
@roberth roberth requested review from Ericson2314 and edolstra and removed request for edolstra November 13, 2024 15:33
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@edolstra edolstra merged commit d85d914 into NixOS:master Nov 13, 2024
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Remove warning that interpretation of .drv has changed (backport #11878)
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Good call! Glad the warning is gone for 2.24!

edolstra added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 26, 2024
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Remove warning that interpretation of .drv has changed (backport #11878)
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