From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: hpcguix-web, channels, and inferiors Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:36:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87ftxksk0v.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87pnxqkbmg.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhvv5c4n.fsf@lassieur.org> <875zyi191w.fsf@inria.fr> <87sh1l62ge.fsf@lassieur.org> <87zhvs69gd.fsf@inria.fr> 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]:48448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8OPE-0004rd-4I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:36:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8OPA-00020B-JV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:36:27 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8OP9-0001yl-QF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:36:24 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zhvs69gd.fsf@inria.fr> 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" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel , =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> Yes I agree. I wonder though: is there a way to know if a specific >> derivation is a package? > > In general no. Of course one could play trick to try and guess whether > it corresponds to a package, but that should be avoided IMO. I wonder if we should work towards specifying a type for derivations. This could be useful for the user interface to be able to clearly distinguish grafts from full package builds. Currently, there=E2=80=99s no way to tell if the derivations listed under = =E2=80=9CThese derivations will be built=E2=80=9D are expensive package builds or just sim= ple graft derivations. -- Ricardo