From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MAFFT. Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 08:42:46 +1000 Message-ID: <55BBF9E6.50403@uq.edu.au> References: <55B0E173.1030406@uq.edu.au> <876158xcoo.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> <55B44F96.8050808@uq.edu.au> <20150726094338.GA24898@debian> <20150726102915.GA32496@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLJ17-0000j7-84 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:43:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLJ13-0003HG-7r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:43:05 -0400 Received: from mailhub1.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.208]:48714 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLJ12-0003Fk-L0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:43:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150726102915.GA32496@debian> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" On 26/07/15 20:29, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:43:38AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: >> I would use a snippet for something internal to Guix, or specific to the >> way we handle things, while a patch is intended to be passed upstream (or >> sometimes taken from upstream already) to correct a bug in the software. > Well, I am contradicting myself. Right now, I am creating a patch for some- > thing internal to Guix, just because it is much easier to do so than to > use a snippet. I think there are no fixed rules... Thanks for the tips Andreas, Ricardo. Is anything amiss with the original patch? ben