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Subject: Re: Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary
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In-Reply-To: <883b5637-01f7-7db3-6a07-956174a65316@tobias.gr> (Tobias
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> Leo Famulari wrote on 21/01/18 at 23:37:
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 04:47:14PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>>> Danny,
>>>
>>> Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 20/01/18 at 11:40:
>>>> We should change that in core-updates-next, if possible.
>>>>=20=20
>>>> I think that native-inputs shouldn't end up in the final binary as a
>>>> reference [...]
>>> This has been discussed before, and I agree. (I started a branch to do
>>> so but it breaks quite a few things and it got tedious. I think I'm
>>> ready for more now.)
>
> [...]
>
>> I'd rather we do it somewhere else than core-updates.
>>=20
>> It's already very difficult to complete the core-updates cycles. We
>> should limit core-updates to updates of core packages, and handle big
>> changes to Guix itself on their own branches.
>
> Er, yeah. Definitely.

+1

Anyway, I think it=E2=80=99s worth experimenting this on a branch.  We=E2=
=80=99ll have
to expect lots of breakage as Leo writes, so we=E2=80=99ll need to refine t=
hings
progressively.

Once such a branch exist, we can get it built on berlin or hydra.

Ludo=E2=80=99.