From f5df5847bd7c4cfe4b16af4efdb0257210fb8d44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:29:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add comment

---
 pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index fdd27b4628c6..3bb41a94bd61 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5291,6 +5291,10 @@ let
 
   pythonPackages = python27Packages;
 
+  # `nix-env -i python-nose` installs for 2.7, the default python.
+  # Therefore we do not recurse into attributes here, in contrast to
+  # python27Packages. `nix-env -iA python26Packages.nose` works
+  # regardless.
   python26Packages = import ./python-packages.nix {
     inherit pkgs;
     python = python26;