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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2009-09-12 18:46:04 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2009-09-12 18:46:04 +0000
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Add `gnu' as an alias for `linux'.
The rationale is that usually applications don't care about the kernel
but rather about the C library, tool chain, and standard utilities,
which are GNU, not Linux.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17069
-rw-r--r--pkgs/lib/platforms.nix1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix b/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix
index de75887cbcab..ecb13e2773dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix
+++ b/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ let
   lists = import ./lists.nix;
 in
 rec {
+  gnu = linux;  /* ++ hurd ++ kfreebsd ++ ... */
   linux = ["i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" "powerpc-linux"];
   darwin = ["i686-darwin" "powerpc-darwin"];
   freebsd = ["i686-freebsd" "x86_64-freebsd" "powerpc-freebsd"];