From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add r-vegan. Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 15:48:10 +0200 Message-ID: <878ty11e91.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1466081273-15127-1-git-send-email-donttrustben@gmail.com> <1466081273-15127-4-git-send-email-donttrustben@gmail.com> <20160618005616.GA25816@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEd5G-0005xt-BF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 09:48:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEd5D-0004lB-63 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 09:48:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160618005616.GA25816@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:56:16 -0400") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:47:53PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: >> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-vegan): New variable. >> * gnu/packages/patches/vegan-revert-test-deletion.patch: New file. > > This patch is 460K uncompressed. gzip reduces it to 124K. Currently > `guix pull` downloads a 10.2 MiB tarball. Just food for thought ;) Heh. AIUI, the patch simply removes files; it=E2=80=99s more space-efficie= nt and clearer to do it in a =E2=80=98snippet=E2=80=99. Would it work for you, Ben? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.