From d51b04750b2eba665ec5636980b7c2f68d57de45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Hoffmann <lucc@posteo.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 21:23:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nix: add comment about pyproject parsing

---
 flake.nix | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 6a0d7482f..d487783da 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@
     flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
       let
         pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
+        # we want to extract some metadata and especially the dependencies
+        # from the pyproject file, like this we do not have to maintain the
+        # list a second time
         pyproject = pkgs.lib.trivial.importTOML ./pyproject.toml;
-        # get a list of python packages by name
+        # get a list of python packages by name, used to get the nix packages
+        # for the dependency names from the pyproject file
         getPkgs = names: builtins.attrValues (pkgs.lib.attrsets.getAttrs names pkgs.python3Packages);
         # extract the python dependencies from the pyprojec file, cut the version constraint
         dependencies' = pkgs.lib.lists.concatMap (builtins.match "([^>=<]*).*") pyproject.project.dependencies;