From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH] system: Remove spec->file-system. Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 17:19:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20161202183716.25174-1-david@craven.ch> <87oa0r7l16.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDZVh-0005mu-Kb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:19:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDZVe-0000D1-Gy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:19:29 -0500 Received: from mail-qt0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22a]:35728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDZVe-0000CB-9i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:19:26 -0500 Received: by mail-qt0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id c47so294241957qtc.2 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 08:19:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87oa0r7l16.fsf@gnu.org> 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Hi Ludo, Ah yes, that makes sense. Thank you for explaining. I think I'm understanding the general design pattern better: Build side code that uses a record from gnu/system is a gexp in gnu/system. This gexp is passed to a function in gnu/build so that gnu/build itself doesn't need to import gnu/system and can avoid recursive imports. David