From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add Mlucas. Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 22:57:21 +0100 Message-ID: <874mh0az3y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151025141201.0f64fc35@debian> <87twpdamn0.fsf@denknerd.org> <87r3khalnv.fsf@denknerd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuSX9-0001KO-Bu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:57:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuSX6-0006aq-6X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:57:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r3khalnv.fsf@denknerd.org> (Paul van der Walt's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:56:04 +0100") 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: Paul van der Walt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Paul van der Walt skribis: > On 2015-10-26 at 12:49, quoth Alex Vong: >> I don't know there is maths.scm! Is there a general guideline on where >> to put new package definition? For example, putting elisp packages in >> emacs.scm is pretty obvious but how about other cases? > > I am far from the right person to be answering this question, but my > heuristic is usually something like "find another similar > package/application and append the definition to that file". In other > cases, it's ambiguous though, for example i recently added 'dosbox to > games.scm (even though it's not a game) and 'cmus to music.scm (even > though it's a media player and music.scm also contains a lot of > music-making software, but one of the alternatives, mpd.scm, seemed too > specific). I guess it's a seat-of-your-pants thing, but i am open to > correction. I think that=E2=80=99s a good summary. It=E2=80=99s a joyful mess, as we s= ay in French. ;-) Ludo=E2=80=99.