From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] gnu: Add perl-date-manip. Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:34:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2u792g5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1436488689-4078-1-git-send-email-ericbavier@openmailbox.org> <1436488689-4078-3-git-send-email-ericbavier@openmailbox.org> <20150710080920.GC4232@debian> 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]:58267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDf0Q-0000lI-Nz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:34:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDf0P-0004mr-Ui for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:34:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150710080920.GC4232@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:09:20 +0200") 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Eric Bavier Andreas Enge skribis: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 07:38:06PM -0500, ericbavier@openmailbox.org wrot= e: >> + (arguments >> + ;; Tests would require tzdata for timezone information, but tzdata= is in >> + ;; (gnu packages base) which would create a circular dependency. = TODO: >> + ;; Maybe put this package elsewhere so we can turn on tests. >> + '(#:tests? #f)) > > Would it be enough to selectively import only tzdata here? On the contrary: Circular dependencies among modules are OK as long as #:select isn=E2=80=99t used (see .) Ludo=E2=80=99.