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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Paul van der Walt <paul@denknerd.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dealing with mass rebuilds
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:34:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oafmk4yo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mhipsst.fsf@denknerd.org> (Paul van der Walt's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:11:30 +0200")

Paul van der Walt <paul@denknerd.org> skribis:

> On 2015-10-21 at 18:45, quoth Ludovic Courtès:
>> The TeX Live issue is orthogonal: We seriously need a ‘texlive-minimal’
>> variant, and the full-blown ‘texlive’ must not be depended on by any
>> other package.
>
> Even more orthogonal: can packages be marked as leaves (or roots,
> depending on your point of view) that may not be used as inputs?  If not
> that sounds like a potentially useful bit of package metadata.

We could do that, but I’m not sure it’s useful, apart from this very
particular case.  Do you have other uses in mind?

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-25 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20151020161651.4759.8347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1ZoZal-0001Fl-M5@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-10-20 18:17   ` 01/01: gnu: curl: Update to 7.45.0 Mark H Weaver
2015-10-20 19:45     ` Dealing with mass rebuilds Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-20 19:56       ` Efraim Flashner
2015-10-20 21:47       ` Andreas Enge
2015-10-21  7:27         ` Efraim Flashner
2015-10-21 16:41           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-21 16:45         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-22 20:11           ` Paul van der Walt
2015-10-25 21:34             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-10-22 18:20       ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-22 18:32         ` Andreas Enge

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