From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Newbie packagers Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:23:44 +0200 Message-ID: <8760rxsvxr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bn1rm1gk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQZUi-0005u5-MH for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:23:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQZUg-0002y2-Pd for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:23:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Vincent Legoll's message of "Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:13:14 +0200") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Vincent Legoll Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Vincent Legoll skribis: > Just to see if I understood properly... > > In the hello.scm example, there is : > > (arguments `(#:configure-flags '("--enable-silent-rules"))) > > 1 - can the quasiquote be replaced by a regular quote, because > unquote is not used ? Yes. > A question remains, why do the configure flags need to be a quoted list ? It=E2=80=99s a list of arguments that gets passed to a function down the ro= ad. Thanks for your feedback! Ludo=E2=80=99.