On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 03:56:48PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I don’t feel strongly about it, but to me, this is a discussion and thus
> not quite in line with the style of this section as a reference of ‘guix
> build’ options.
> 
> As far as the discussion goes :-), I’d argue that the Corresponding
> Source in the spirit of the GPL is the derivation rather than what
> ‘--sources’ returns, since the Corresponding Source should include
> “build scripts”.  I would argue that only functional package managers
> are able to support such a strong notion of Corresponding Source.
> 
> Long story short: the discussion is not clear-cut and I’m not sure it
> belongs here.  :-)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Well said.  You convinced me not to make a recommendation.  Thank you.
I still was surprised about `guix build -S` so I attach a new
proposal.

Regards,
Florian