From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fabian Harfert Subject: Package modules Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:45:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20160218154530.1dc7539d@alarmpi> References: <87io1no0zx.fsf@grrlz.net> <20160217223535.GA32658@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWPpq-00088V-AO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:45:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWPpn-0002Tn-1T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:45:38 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:54844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWPpm-0002TP-PP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:45:34 -0500 Received: from alarmpi ([217.232.195.230]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LjJL9-1ZyS7n43qB-00dSWR for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:45:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160217223535.GA32658@solar> 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi! I don't understand the point that makes package modules necessary in general and theoretically. We can have each package only once, so there's no need for that. I know that practically it is necessary because it's easy to structure and results from the definition of packages like program code. But why isn't it possible to include all the packages modules from (gnu packages) automatically? Is there something speaking against that? Fabian