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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:15:29 -0400
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

[...]

> What is more scary is massive imports from external repos (CPAN, etc.).
> I think we cannot handle all of it, not with our =E2=80=9Cquality=E2=80=
=9D guidelines
> and not with the pace at which these repos change.
>
> At the GHM, we were discussing that, probably, we=E2=80=99ll have to acce=
pt for
> Guix to be a gateway to those repos (at least for the =E2=80=9Cnon-core=
=E2=80=9D subsets
> of the repos).  Concretely, one could do =E2=80=9Cguix package -i cpan!Fo=
o::Bar=E2=80=9D
> and have the package DAG imported and built live.  It=E2=80=99s either th=
at or
> people will use CPAN=E2=80=99s own tools to achieve this.
>
> Thoughts?

I think as long as our tools for massively updating packages
automatically (guix refresh -u) are on par with our tools to massively
import (guix import) there shouldn't be too many problems?

Maxim