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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Recommend order for package fields?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:51:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735nskxks.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ12_tXjJrt_JR5j3+7vPBL3zHpk642Yafx2X+m5sKW-aw@mail.gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:40:04 +0100")

Hi!

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> Thanks for explaining. :-)  Let rephrase: compare different behaviours
> [1] depending on lexical scope which is odd in the framework of
> "declarative".  Anyway, your point is: it is a feature, not an issue,
> IIUC.

Exactly.  :-)

We’re verrrry far from having the kind of inconsistency I observed in
Nixpkgs back when I contributed.  And I think the difference mostly lies
in how people work together; it’s a social issue.

Ludo’.


      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-19 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2021-11-15 16:45   ` Recommend order for package fields? zimoun
2021-11-16 18:54     ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-11-17 11:15       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-17 11:18     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-17 11:40       ` zimoun
2021-11-19 14:51         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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