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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing headers to a separate output?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:40:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160225204046.GA24943@solar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh68fs4p.fsf@elephly.net>

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:32:22PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Other distributions have separate “*-devel” or “*-dev” packages (and I’m
> ambivalent about this) — would it be a bad idea if we provided “devel”
> or “dev” *outputs* so that users had more control over what ends up in
> their store?

Personally I find this really annoying and am happy that we just install
a package (most of the time) as the result of "make install". Otherwise,
we would also almost systematically need to add the header outputs as
build inputs.

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-25 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-25 20:32 Installing headers to a separate output? Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-25 20:40 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2016-02-25 21:05 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-26 23:24   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-27 11:33     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-27 19:40       ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-28  9:48         ` git download size Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-28 15:17           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 15:46             ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-28 15:45           ` Ludovic Courtès

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