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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: nss-certs: Stop inheriting from nss package.
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:34:18 +0200
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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