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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org, h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com
Subject: Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 56
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:58:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ilm4wwpr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220722171209.312e2822@aria>

Hi,

I am late to the party. :-)

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 17:12, kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> wrote:

> We could have packages recommend other packages to make this discovery
> easier for users, like Arch's opt-depends.

From my point of view, ’recommend’ is like ’tag’.  It is not
well-defined and then it opens to many bikesheds.  And it adds
maintenance burden.

For instance, let consider the package hello written in C language.
Some people would recommend GDB, some Valgrind.  For packages using Git,
some would recommend plain Git, some git-extensions or Magit.  For
packages using Python, some would recommend plain Python and others
IPython, maybe Jupyter.  About COq, some would recommend Coq-IDE, some
Proof-General.  And so on.

From my opinion, the package manager is not the correct level for
“social” recommendations.


Cheers,
simon


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-03 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5750.1658421830.1145.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2022-07-22 17:12 ` Guix-devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 56 kiasoc5
2022-07-22 17:16   ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 22:52     ` kiasoc5
2022-07-24  6:30       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-09-03 10:58   ` zimoun [this message]

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