From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:40:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5825F493.4000803@crazy-compilers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161111160341.GA1935@jocasta.intra>
Am 11.11.2016 um 17:03 schrieb John Darrington:
>
> > +(define-public util-linux
> > + (package
> > + (inherit util-linux/base)
> > + (name "util-linux")
> > + (source (origin (inherit (package-source util-linux/base))))
>
> I'm curious: Why do you need to inherit the package-source here?
>
>
> Well I don't actually *need* to. I could have copied it. But I thought that
> having 3 copies would make maintenance difficult---somebody might update one,
> but forget the other two.
Sorry for not being precise enough. I meant why are us using "inherit"
here? I thought
(source (package-source util-linux/base))
would suffice and result in the same?
--
Regards
Hartmut Goebel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-11 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-10 21:14 [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages John Darrington
2016-11-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 2/4] gnu: nfs-utils: Change input from util-linux to util-linux/mount John Darrington
2016-11-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Move util-linux/mount to new file and deal with the effects John Darrington
2016-11-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add fs-search paths to util-linux John Darrington
2016-11-11 14:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-11 16:03 ` John Darrington
2016-11-11 16:40 ` Hartmut Goebel [this message]
2016-11-11 19:36 ` John Darrington
2016-11-12 14:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-12 15:28 ` John Darrington
2016-11-12 17:09 ` John Darrington
2016-11-12 22:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-13 8:21 ` John Darrington
2016-11-13 11:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-13 14:06 ` John Darrington
2016-11-14 9:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-14 17:46 ` John Darrington
2016-11-15 10:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-16 21:06 ` mount syscall John Darrington
2016-11-17 9:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-22 19:15 ` [PATCH] gnu: Allow nfs filesystems to be automatically mounted John Darrington
2016-11-23 22:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-23 23:32 ` John Darrington
2016-11-24 16:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-26 9:36 ` [PATCH] gnu: Allow nfs file systems " John Darrington
2016-11-26 18:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-26 19:33 ` John Darrington
2016-11-28 13:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-28 14:07 ` John Darrington
2016-11-28 21:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-29 6:27 ` John Darrington
2016-11-29 21:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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