On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:43:32PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
     Am 10.11.2016 um 22:14 schrieb John Darrington:
     > +(define-public util-linux/base
     >    (package
     > -    (name "util-linux")
     > +    (name "util-linux-base")
     
     I'm in favour of naming the variable as the package. This eases using them.

I tried that.  It seems that there is a precident to use /variant  for the variable.
However / is not permitted in the name
     
     > +(define-public util-linux
     > +  (package
     > +    (inherit util-linux/base)
     > +    (name "util-linux")
     > +    (source (origin (inherit (package-source util-linux/base))))
     
     I'm curious: Why do you need to inherit the package-source here?
     

Well I don't actually *need* to.  I could have copied it.  But I thought that
having 3 copies would make maintenance difficult---somebody might update one,
but forget the other two.
     

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