From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: 26786@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26786: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-org: Update to 20170502.
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 09:37:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8082ba63.AEQAKHOcDVMAAAAAAAAAAAO7_ZEAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZDUwM@mailjet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r303x8ka.fsf@gnu.org>
>> I think we should build directly from org's release tarball at
>> http://orgmode.org/org-9.0.6.tar.gz instead of using the ELPA
>> tarball. It somehow feels like we are not building from source but
>> rather relying on a prepackaged tarball from ELPA. However, Nicolas
>> Goaziou, the org mode maintainer,
>> disagrees. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg01395.html
>
> I find Nicolas’s argument above (that building from ELPA makes the
> recipe trivial) pretty convincing.
>
> Why would you suggest using the tarball from orgmode.org?
It seems like we are depending on an intermediary (ELPA) instead of
directly building from the original source. I feel that Guix packages
should not depend on other repositories (like ELPA).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-06 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-05 17:43 bug#26786: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-org: Update to 20170502 Vasile Dumitrascu
2017-05-05 20:45 ` Arun Isaac
2017-05-05 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-06 4:07 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2017-05-06 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-06 16:59 ` Arun Isaac
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