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* The case for moving raw binaries
@ 2022-04-28 16:37 Liliana Marie Prikler
  2022-04-28 16:50 ` Maxime Devos
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Liliana Marie Prikler @ 2022-04-28 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hi Guix,

"raw binaries" (henceforth rawbins) are the unwrapped binaries that
Guix leaves behind in $PACKAGE/bin with the .$WRAPPER-real name.  This
practise causes several issues.  For one, those rawbins are visible in
the shell by typing a dot and using tab completion.  What's more, in
some build systems there might be two (or even more) off them.  This
makes a generic wrap after wrap pattern almost impossible to achieve.

So, what's the fix?  I propose moving rawbins to a different location.
libexec would spring to mind as a place in which we could hide them, so
would a new directory in the root of $PACKAGE.  Other than that, adding
a rawbin output would also be possible, but I am not certain whether
that'd be the right tradeoff.

So, what do you think?  Any candidates for $RAWBIN_DIR that we can
bikeshed?  Any disagreements?

Cheers


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2022-04-28 16:50 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-28 16:55 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-28 17:27   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-28 19:57     ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-28 22:52       ` raingloom
2022-04-29  9:39         ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-29  4:13       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-29  9:27         ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-29 16:59           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-29 21:20             ` Philip McGrath
2022-07-30  6:11               ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-08-04  8:54                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-04 16:53                   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-29  9:18 ` zimoun
2022-05-23 15:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-23 16:03   ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-23 16:37   ` Liliana Marie Prikler

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