From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Cc: 25201-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25201: Re bug#25201: [PATCH] gnu: Patch mumble to disable statistic gathering by default.
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:22:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200310182250.GA26542@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2003101042560.19733@marsh.hcoop.net>
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:50:57AM -0400, Jack Hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for improving Guix! Having an old bug closed is great.
>
> I'm trying to follow along, and learn some things about making Guix
> packages. One question I have after seeing this change is how did you decide
> whether to make this change in the source definition (with a patch or a
> snippet) or in a phase during the build?
>
> Perhaps for this change the differences don't matter to much, so I won't
> learn much, but I thought I'd ask anyway :)
>
> Best,
> Jack
In general changes in snippets are used to remove non-free software and
to allow the software to build. The idea is that 'guix build -S foo'
will return the source for foo which could be taken to a non-guix system
and built normally. In practice I'm not sure how often this is the case.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-10 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-14 18:53 bug#25201: Mumble opts users into statistics gathering by default Thompson, David
2016-12-26 22:42 ` ng0
2020-03-08 17:03 ` bug#25201: [PATCH] gnu: Patch mumble to disable statistic " mike
2020-03-09 10:42 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-03-09 23:54 ` bug#25201: Re " mike
2020-03-10 8:56 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-03-10 14:50 ` Jack Hill
2020-03-10 16:03 ` mike
2020-03-10 17:14 ` Jack Hill
2020-03-10 18:22 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
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