From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix size reduction work group
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:35:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0aq13op.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ1s5-ak8jTcpzZxU5qj5JRuNJeGYJNVphA1_qOEFHEjyg@mail.gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Wed, 5 Feb 2020 17:11:17 +0100")
Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
>> The thing is, I think it’s something that requires constant care, every
>> time we add a package or modify an existing one. It’s very easy to lose
>> benefits that had been previously obtained through hard work!
>
> I have never thought, neither tried but is it possible to find and/or
> build all the packages that 'inherit' from a specific one?
Nope (‘inherit’ is purely syntactic, it doesn’t “live on” at run time.)
What would it buy you, though?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-07 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-04 15:57 Guix size reduction work group Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-04 16:22 ` zimoun
2020-02-04 17:59 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-05 15:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-05 16:11 ` zimoun
2020-02-07 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-02-07 22:31 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-02-08 13:40 ` zimoun
2020-02-10 13:13 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-02-11 14:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-08 16:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-09 23:45 ` zimoun
2020-02-10 8:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-10 8:46 ` Christopher Baines
2020-02-11 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-10 10:30 ` zimoun
2020-02-10 12:33 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-11 14:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
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