From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Warning on using GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 20:41:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20170209194101.GA24862@jurong> References: <20170209133048.GA23419@mail.thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52169) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbuad-0003SR-GY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:41:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbuaY-0000L2-Ip for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:41:11 -0500 Received: from mailrelay7.public.one.com ([91.198.169.215]:61193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbuaY-0000Ki-Bw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:41:06 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170209133048.GA23419@mail.thebird.nl> 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: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:30:48PM +0000, Pjotr Prins wrote: > @FOSDEM we concluded that GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH does not necessarily work > that wel. Did we? As everything it depends on the use case, and it seems to be a good tool for keeping a package or two for personal use. Of course, optimally it would not be needed, since people write only high quality package definitions for free software that can easily be upstreamed and accepted as such in the master branch :-) Andreas