From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Symlinks to generic names Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 18:47:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20140202174706.GA5481@intra> References: <20140201082105.GA1181@jocasta.intra> <87zjma3r40.fsf@gnu.org> <20140202134038.GA5291@intra> <20140202164201.GA13629@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA1D0-0001EZ-Ef for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:55:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA18Y-0002zG-21 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:51:54 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140202164201.GA13629@debian> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 05:42:01PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:40:39PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > python3 -> python =20 For python, the binary python is provided by python-2.7.6. The binary python3 (and python3.3) is provided by python-3.3.3. And there is python-wrapper, which installs python-3.3.3 and creates symlinks python -> python3 etc.. =20 So for python, there is nothing to do - if you need python3, you alrea= dy have it. It seems that whilst guix's python2 package installs a link from python2 ->= python this does not happen for python3. =20 Generally, we intend to be closer to upstream than debian, for instanc= e; also to keep maintenance low. So I would be very cautious about adding symbolic links.=20 =20 Minimising downstream modifications is certainly a noble goal. The thing is if we refuse to (say) link lex to flex, then every package which calls "= lex" has to be modified, thus defeating that goal. Obviously the best option would be to get upstream to adopt our patches. Do we have any programme to actually make them aware or our patches? J' --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlLuhJoACgkQimdxnC3oJ7NKnACfYQIYpsfwPLAHy2MbNXibZzgH WfIAn0igwbZ1dHuywZ0AsmI5A+UOuTmH =x7oj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--