From 7cd6b3cf7666455319769ff7c863ab8a08a1720e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Benno=20F=C3=BCnfst=C3=BCck?= <benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:38:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert change of path type

The change caused lots of evaluation errors, since it caused derivations to no longer be valid paths as well.
---
 lib/types.nix | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/types.nix b/lib/types.nix
index 27b653ebb6c7..a7f9bf1946e6 100644
--- a/lib/types.nix
+++ b/lib/types.nix
@@ -103,8 +103,7 @@ rec {
     path = mkOptionType {
       name = "path";
       # Hacky: there is no ‘isPath’ primop.
-      # need to check isString first because otherwise toString throws an error.
-      check = x: builtins.isString x && builtins.substring 0 1 (toString x) == "/";
+      check = x: builtins.substring 0 1 (toString x) == "/";
       merge = mergeOneOption;
     };