Excise use of importJSON

Putting information in external JSON files is IMHO not an improvement
over the idiomatic style of Nix expressions. The use of JSON doesn't
add anything over Nix expressions (in fact it removes expressive
power). And scattering package info over lots of little files makes
packages less readable over having the info in one file.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/lib/trivial.nix b/lib/trivial.nix
index 7860b949939..abe5a16c67d 100644
--- a/lib/trivial.nix
+++ b/lib/trivial.nix
@@ -102,25 +102,7 @@ rec {
   min = x: y: if x < y then x else y;
   max = x: y: if x > y then x else y;
 
-  /* Reads a JSON file. It is useful to import pure data into other nix
-     expressions.
-
-     Example:
-
-       mkDerivation {
-         src = fetchgit (importJSON ./repo.json)
-         #...
-       }
-
-       where repo.json contains:
-
-       {
-         "url": "git://some-domain/some/repo",
-         "rev": "265de7283488964f44f0257a8b4a055ad8af984d",
-         "sha256": "0sb3h3067pzf3a7mlxn1hikpcjrsvycjcnj9hl9b1c3ykcgvps7h"
-       }
-
-  */
+  /* Reads a JSON file. */
   importJSON = path:
     builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile path);