Le Sun, 30 Apr 2017 23:11:24 +0200,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> a écrit :

> On 30/04/17 22:05, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > Then there are changes we make in order to port software to Guix or
> > make other relatively unimportant changes. If they can be done with
> > a sed-like / regex substitution, we do them in build phases. It's
> > helpful to keep them in Scheme, and we don't want to distribute
> > them via `guix build --source`.  
> 
> Ah, I never considered this as a Guix-related fix: shipping symlinks
> to /usr might happen to work on some (?) other systems, but it's
> obviously not how autotools should be used.
> 
> We should serve users with a --source tarball that is either already
> bootstrapped or ready to be, not in some dead-end third state.
> 
> The correct answer in either case is, of course: ‘it's a silly detail,
> Tobias’.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R
> 
Here's the updated patch.