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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field.
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:07:47 +0300
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To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, David Craven <david@craven.ch>

Mathieu Lirzin (2016-08-08 20:53 +0300) wrote:

> David Craven <david@craven.ch> writes:
>
>> Quoting Ludo from the thread you mentioned:
>>
>>> (Besides, our package meta-data would probably still refer to the =E2=
=80=9Creal=E2=80=9D
>>> home page of the package, from which it=E2=80=99s trivial to get the un=
modified
>>> tarball.)
>>
>> The discussion only applies to 'guix build --source' and I can't see any
>> indication from reading the thread that displaying the original source u=
rl
>> would be in any way problematic. Can you quote something from that
>> thread that would indicate otherwise?
>
> I don't need to quote anything to think that:
>
> - Providing a user tool to fetch a tarball
> - Displaying a direct link to a tarball in our UI

But a user already can look at any package info (including the source
URL) using "guix edit" command, so I don't see a reason why "guix
package --show" can't display the same info.

--=20
Alex