From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:41:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4goy88h.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871teh9ddz.fsf_-_@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:09:12 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-02 16:09 +0300) wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> An alternative is to inherit from the “r” package in “statistics.scm”.
>>
>> (define-module (my own packages)
>> #:use-module (guix packages)
>> #:use-module (gnu packages statistics)
>> #:use-module (srfi srfi-1))
>>
>> (define-public my-r
>> (package (inherit r)
>> (name "my-r")
>> ;; modify only the inputs here
>> (native-inputs (alist-delete "texlive" (package-native-inputs r)))
>> (inputs (alist-delete "icedtea6" (package-inputs r)))))
>
> Speaking of which: should we get rid of icedtea6:jdk in the default R
> package (closure size: 1 GiB), and maybe of TeX Live (4 GiB)? Or should
> we provide, say, ‘r-light’ with the definition above?
We have ‘bash-light’ and ‘wpa-supplicant-light’; ‘bioperl-minimal’ and
‘cups-minimal’. I think we should stick to a single name for such
light/minimal packages. (I prefer "…-minimal")
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-02 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-31 16:42 Installing a custom package on Guix binary setup Vicente Vera
2015-08-31 20:03 ` Thompson, David
2015-08-31 20:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-01 2:28 ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-01 6:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-02 13:09 ` R dependencies Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-02 18:41 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2015-09-02 19:26 ` '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages Mathieu Lirzin
2015-09-02 20:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-03 8:32 ` Alex Kost
2015-09-03 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-04 12:59 ` Alex Kost
2015-09-05 20:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-03 0:53 ` R dependencies Vicente Vera
2015-09-03 6:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-03 14:55 ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-11 14:39 ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-03 10:12 ` [PATCH] " Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-03 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-05 20:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
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