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From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: NPM and trusted binaries
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:01:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160908070125.GA27108@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r38vwqbx.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 07:51:46PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 
> >> Still, I think Guix would benefit from a somewhat more relaxed stance
> >> in this.
> >
> > It’s part of Guix’s mission to build from source whenever that is
> > possible, which is the case here, AIUI.

Mission is fine and I agree with that (in principle).

> WDYT, do we have enough information to decide if building from `source'
> the right metaphor?  Is it pracically feasible and does feasibilty have
> any weight?  What's the next step I could take to help to bring `q' and
> `http' (and the other 316 packages I need) into Guix?

I think we are clear we do not want binaries in the main project
unless there is no way to do it from source.

Personally I think we should be easier on ourselves which implies that
we get multiple flavours of Guix. 

Another reason to make 'guix channels' work.

Pj.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-23  9:07 GSoC NPM Jelle Licht
2016-08-25 10:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-27 13:12   ` Jelle Licht
2016-09-06 23:21     ` Catonano
2016-08-27 21:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-06 20:00   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-09-02 14:24 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-02 15:27   ` Thompson, David
2016-09-02 16:23     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-02 15:33   ` Jelle Licht
2016-09-04 14:11     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-06 15:48       ` Thompson, David
2016-09-06 16:50         ` NPM and trusted binaries Pjotr Prins
2016-09-07 12:25           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-07 17:51             ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-08  7:01               ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2016-09-08  8:29                 ` Jelle Licht
2016-09-08  2:45           ` Mike Gerwitz
2016-09-08  8:45             ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-08 17:31               ` Mike Gerwitz
2016-09-08 19:54                 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-09  0:31                   ` Mike Gerwitz
2016-09-09  8:45                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-09  9:26                       ` Pjotr Prins

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