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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: nss-certs: Stop inheriting from nss package.
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:34:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fci211h.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160718163927.GA2347@jasmine>


Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/certs.scm (nss-certs): Stop inheriting from nss package.
>
> Why do we want to do this?
>
> It appears to me that the resulting package would be the same. Is there
> a plan to let the versions diverge in the future?

We have a module cycle when using the certs module from the java
module.  By separating “nss-certs” from the “nss” package we break the
cycle.  Ludo explained it well in this email:

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-06/msg00648.html

>> +;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>
> Is this intentional?

Yes.  This patch is almost exactly the same as what Ludo proposed in the
email above.  I cannot take credit for this.

~~ Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18 11:59 [PATCH 0/3] icedtea: Generate keystore Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-18 11:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] gnu: nss-certs: Stop inheriting from nss package Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-18 16:39   ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-18 19:34     ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-07-18 19:39       ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-19 12:44   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-18 11:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] gnu: icedtea-6: Use modify-phases syntax Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-19 12:45   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-18 11:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: icedtea-6: Generate keystore Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-19 12:51   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-19 13:03     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-22 19:14     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-23 18:32       ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-23 21:19         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-23 21:33           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-23 23:27             ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-24  7:43               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-24  8:07                 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-18 17:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] icedtea: " Roel Janssen

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