From b7fa5f13c95b4349d4193cd0e6e2c9b8b8a799c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:46:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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
---
 pkgs/lib/platforms.nix | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix b/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix
index de75887cbca..ecb13e2773d 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"];