From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: distinguishing between applications and libraries
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:48:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfxhv322.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E655A03-834C-4219-8956-D69CF4C6A444@vllmrt.net>
Hi Robert,
> Has it been considered to track applications and libraries
> separately? Along the lines of:
>
> - package definitions could have a `type` field, or a `library`
> flag or similar
This dichotomy falls apart with many bioinformatics packages that
provide both libraries and executables, where neither of the two types
is prioritized.
> - `guix search` would ignore library packages by default
I think it’s valid for users to want to install libraries. For Python,
for example, installing modules that don’t provide any executables
appears to be the norm.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-01 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-30 17:33 distinguishing between applications and libraries Robert Vollmert
2019-06-30 18:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-30 20:05 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-30 21:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 21:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-01 22:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-02 6:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 0:24 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-07-02 6:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 15:24 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-07-01 8:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-07-01 11:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 21:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-07-02 13:35 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-07-02 14:33 ` zimoun
2019-07-05 20:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
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