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From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:03:41 +0100
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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")
    =20
     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
    =20
     > +(define-public util-linux
     > +  (package
     > +    (inherit util-linux/base)
     > +    (name "util-linux")
     > +    (source (origin (inherit (package-source util-linux/base))))
    =20
     I'm curious: Why do you need to inherit the package-source here?
    =20

Well I don't actually *need* to.  I could have copied it.  But I thought th=
at
having 3 copies would make maintenance difficult---somebody might update on=
e,
but forget the other two.
    =20

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