From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
Subject: Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:37:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876057gyfi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh8cj8c9.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 03 Apr 2018 23:20:06 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> writes:
[...]
>> Can you tell me why it is safer to say perl-license instead of package-license perl?
>
> Following Ludo’s reference to “(guix licenses)” we can see this comment:
>
> ;; The license of Perl, GPLv1+ or Artistic (we ignore the latter here).
> ;; We define this alias to avoid circular dependencies introduced by the use
> ;; of the '(package-license perl)' idiom.
Exactly. The problem arose when we started writing (package-license
perl) in modules other than perl.scm but that were in a cycle with
perl.scm.
Ludo’.
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[not found] ` <20180403124357.2ECCC204DA@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-04-03 13:18 ` 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-03 13:27 ` Roel Janssen
2018-04-03 13:29 ` Roel Janssen
2018-04-03 17:00 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-04-03 19:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-03 19:51 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-04-03 20:14 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-03 21:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-04-04 8:37 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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