From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul van der Walt Subject: Re: Dealing with mass rebuilds Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:11:30 +0200 Message-ID: <874mhipsst.fsf@denknerd.org> References: <20151020161651.4759.8347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87zizd2ymv.fsf@netris.org> <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20151020214716.GA7835@debian> <87fv149nlz.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpMD7-0001Hc-4i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:11:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpMD3-0002Oh-07 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:11:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <87fv149nlz.fsf@gnu.org> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 2015-10-21 at 18:45, quoth Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: > The TeX Live issue is orthogonal: We seriously need a =E2=80=98texlive-= minimal=E2=80=99 > variant, and the full-blown =E2=80=98texlive=E2=80=99 must not be depen= ded on by any > other package. Even more orthogonal: can packages be marked as leaves (or roots, depending on your point of view) that may not be used as inputs? If not that sounds like a potentially useful bit of package metadata. Cheers, p.