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Subject: Re: Notifying package authors
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:47:45 -0500
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To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 08:21:26AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> It would be good if we made it a point to notify package authors about
> GNU Guix inclusion, and ideally have them put it on their website. I
> have done this now for the ldc compiler and ruby-nokogiri. E.g.
> 
>   https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/41sz2i/ldc_is_now_part_of_gnu_guix/
> 
> Now GNU Guix is becoming an ever greater system, I think it important
> that people realise they can use GNU Guix. Especially with packages
> that are notoriously hard to use on other systems (such as ldc and
> nokogiri).

I've begun been doing the same. I link to the package's anchor link on
the package list [0] and I provide an image of the dependency graph
(from `guix graph`).

[0]
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/package-list.html#ldc

> 
> Pj.
>