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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: nss-certs: Stop inheriting from nss package.
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:39:40 -0400
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 09:34:18PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> * gnu/packages/certs.scm (nss-certs): Stop inheriting from nss package.
> >
> > Why do we want to do this?
> >
> > It appears to me that the resulting package would be the same. Is there
> > a plan to let the versions diverge in the future?
> 
> We have a module cycle when using the certs module from the java
> module.  By separating “nss-certs” from the “nss” package we break the
> cycle.  Ludo explained it well in this email:
> 
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-06/msg00648.html
> 
> >> +;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> >
> > Is this intentional?
> 
> Yes.  This patch is almost exactly the same as what Ludo proposed in the
> email above.  I cannot take credit for this.

Ah, thanks for explaining!