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From: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
To: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Am I using --with-source improperly?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:07:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3260f31f-518f-b40e-9e4f-97040359e51e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imd4bad9.fsf@zancanaro.id.au>

On 8/27/20 5:23 AM, Carlo Zancanaro wrote:
> Hi Jesse!
>
> On Thu, Aug 27 2020, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
>> Am I using the --with-source option incorrectly, or is this some sort 
>> of bug?
>
> You could argue either way. This is because --with-source is a shallow 
> package rewrite, unlike the other --with-X package transformation 
> options. There is an issue filed about this[1], but I don't think 
> anybody has found the time to work on it yet.
>
> Carlo
>
> [1]: https://issues.guix.info/issue/42155


I came to a similar conclusion after some hacking late last night. 
Thanks for linking to the issue. I might work on it.



      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-27 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-27  2:34 Am I using --with-source improperly? Jesse Gibbons
2020-08-27  8:38 ` zimoun
2020-08-27 11:23 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2020-08-27 16:07   ` Jesse Gibbons [this message]

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