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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’.

  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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