From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ldc-1.1.0-beta4 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:46:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20170104164610.21910f21@scratchpost.org> References: <20170104155234.1463ac4e@scratchpost.org> 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]:58233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOnlZ-0000Y4-Do for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:46:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOnlW-00020s-8p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:46:17 -0500 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:51122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOnlW-00020D-2H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:46:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: 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" To: Frederick Muriithi Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org > Hmm, my understanding of how the package definitions work might be > incomplete: It seemed to me like after you inherited, from a package, > and then added a definition in any of the variables, the new variables > would NOT add to the values of the older ones but rather, they would > completely overwrite the older one. Yes. I mean you can leave the whole "(arguments ...)" form off.