From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MAFFT. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:58:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1ybhypp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55B0E173.1030406@uq.edu.au> <876158xcoo.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> <55B44F96.8050808@uq.edu.au> <20150726094338.GA24898@debian> <20150726102915.GA32496@debian> <55BBF9E6.50403@uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZULIy-0004nI-FT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:58:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZULIv-0003SB-9B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:58:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <55BBF9E6.50403@uq.edu.au> (Ben Woodcroft's message of "Sat, 01 Aug 2015 08:42:46 +1000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ben Woodcroft Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Ben Woodcroft skribis: > On 26/07/15 20:29, Andreas Enge wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:43:38AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: >>> I would use a snippet for something internal to Guix, or specific to the >>> way we handle things, while a patch is intended to be passed upstream (= or >>> sometimes taken from upstream already) to correct a bug in the software. >> Well, I am contradicting myself. Right now, I am creating a patch for so= me- >> thing internal to Guix, just because it is much easier to do so than to >> use a snippet. I think there are no fixed rules... > Thanks for the tips Andreas, Ricardo. Is anything amiss with the > original patch? It seems this message was left unanswered. Andreas? Ludo=E2=80=99.