Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

>> We could check whether the source URL starts with “mirror://cran”, no?
>> And forget about the ‘r-repository’ property?
>
> I think so.  I’ve just updated the patches.
>
>>> +++ b/guix/scripts/import/bioconductor.scm
>>
>> I was wondering whether this should be a separate script or not.  A
>> precedent would be the ELPA importer, which takes a repository name as
>> an argument.  We could have done the same with the CRAN importer here.
>
> I would prefer not to have a separate script, because there’s so much
> duplication.  I’ll look at the ELPA importer for inspiration.

Attached is a new patch (only the last one of the series) which adds
“--archive=bioconductor” as an option to the CRAN importer in addition
to the other requested changes (removal of “r-repository”, etc).  I also
changed the documentation.

~~ Ricardo