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* Packaging a repository with git submodules
@ 2024-11-07 12:34 Adam
  2024-11-10  0:14 ` Leo Famulari
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From: Adam @ 2024-11-07 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix

Hi Guix!
I have a question.
If I want to write a package for a git repository which has submodules,
should I download these dependencies recursively (recursive? #t)? Or it
will be better to write a package definition for each dependency?

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* Re: Packaging a repository with git submodules
@ 2024-11-09 20:37 Cayetano Santos
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Cayetano Santos @ 2024-11-09 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: adam.quandour; +Cc: help-guix


Hi Adam,

You may refer to this exchange

  https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/87ttd3t4b0.fsf@kitej/

Seems that the preferred approach is to package dependencies, unless you
have a very good reason not to.

C.


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* Re: Packaging a repository with git submodules
  2024-11-07 12:34 Adam
@ 2024-11-10  0:14 ` Leo Famulari
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2024-11-10  0:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Adam; +Cc: help-guix

On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 03:34:48PM +0300, Adam wrote:
> If I want to write a package for a git repository which has submodules,
> should I download these dependencies recursively (recursive? #t)? Or it
> will be better to write a package definition for each dependency?

Both approaches are good. It's a matter of taste and the particulars of
your package.

Some programs have a build system that makes it really hard to use
externally provided dependencies rather than the Git submodules. And
it's easier to use recursive Git as a packager.

On the other hand, if you use recursive Git, you lose the full power of
Guix to inspect and manipulate your package's dependency graph.


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