From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: none Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 02:41:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20160722004130.GA10340@thebird.nl> References: <579027b7.VHXjhpPxQC3AAmeY%pjotr.public12@email> <8760rznoh1.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQOaR-00073J-5r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:45:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQOaL-0000ej-E3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:45:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8760rznoh1.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:51:38PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > In > , > you already identified exactly what we were going to say. :-) >=20 > Namely, why are patches applied in a build phase rather than in > =E2=80=98origin=E2=80=99, why is such and such test disabled (one sente= nce is usually > enough), what happens if we set =E2=80=98HOME=E2=80=99 like Ben suggest= s, etc. >=20 > What should we do? :-) I think I have covered that both in my writeup and in my response to Ben. I think this work should be accepted as is. I think this is probably the last package I am contributing to main line. Never liked dancing that much ;) But seriously, we should find other ways to encourage people. I wonder how many packages are out there that never find their way into guix or much too late. I wonder how much duplicate work is going on because of our dance requirement. If it this hard *with* my experience in packaging, how hard do you think it is for people *without* experience. I know Dennis, for example, is sitting on a heap of opencl packages which are incredibly useful to many people. I believe we have to change our ways. Pj.