From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c. Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 23:20:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87sh8cj8c9.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20180403124356.20162.76789@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180403124357.2ECCC204DA@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <874lksbf8f.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvssv2rs.fsf@gnu.org> <87sh8cv2ok.fsf@gnu.org> <20180403170021.jmctpswhcfniblt3@abyayala> 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]:37284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3TLs-0003gl-CX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:20:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3TLr-0003t9-B4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:20:24 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180403170021.jmctpswhcfniblt3@abyayala> 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: Nils Gillmann Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Nils Gillmann writes: > Roel Janssen transcribed 509 bytes: >>=20 >> Roel Janssen writes: >>=20 >> > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> > >> >> Hi Roel, >> >> >> >> roel@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: >> >> >> >>> + (license (package-license perl)))) >> >> >> >> Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It doesn=E2=80=99t mak= e any >> >> difference in this case but it=E2=80=99s generally =E2=80=9Csafer=E2= =80=9D (see (guix >> >> licenses)). > > Can you tell me why it is safer to say perl-license instead of package-li= cense perl? Following Ludo=E2=80=99s reference to =E2=80=9C(guix licenses)=E2=80=9D we = can see this comment: ;; The license of Perl, GPLv1+ or Artistic (we ignore the latter here). ;; We define this alias to avoid circular dependencies introduced by the = use ;; of the '(package-license perl)' idiom. --=20 Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net