From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: On packaging old versions of libraries Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:07:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20170825070715.GA15679@thebird.nl> References: <87tw0yl284.fsf@gnu.org> <20170824220643.3391820f@centurylink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dl8j0-0003sV-1R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2017 03:08:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dl8ix-0007bX-Db for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2017 03:08:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170824220643.3391820f@centurylink.net> 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: Eric Bavier Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:06:43PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote: > > I'm going to look into what is required to backport, but if I decided= to > > go the first route, I would probably use Guix. Would such a > > contribution be accepted considering it packages older libraries, whi= ch > > would add some cruft? At the least, I would have to compile CEGUI=A0= 0.7, > > but that might need older versions of libraries itself to compile. >=20 > I think this would be fine as long as there are no known security > issues in those older libraries. The packages could even be private to > the maryo chronicles package so that they are not available for users > to install. >=20 > FWIW my kids would love to play this game too. :) This is why we need channels. Pj.