From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: texlive-fetch instead of svn-fetch Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:27:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87imx2y5qg.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87k1hiy7gu.fsf@elephly.net> <874l8mfxpr.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzk4w-0002cP-Q7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:28:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzk4v-0000QU-Ao for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:28:02 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21043) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzk4u-0000PG-Vc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:28:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <874l8mfxpr.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Would that still be needed if we implement a tlpdb-based importer? The importer only helps you generate the initial package definition. A tlpdb-based importer cannot do magic. The tlpdb file tells it what files are expected to be provided by the package and what files are considered sources, but this doesn=E2=80=99t change the fact that these fil= es come from different parts of the TeX Live SVN tree and somehow have to be added as inputs. The importer can automate this by adding the various native inputs, but you still end up with an ugly package definition. Think of all of the native inputs you=E2=80=99ll have to update when updating an existing package definition=E2=80=A6 Changing the way the input sources are represented is independent from the way this representation is generated. -- Ricardo