From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: maven build system - new insights Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:33:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87ef8smmgj.fsf@elephly.net> References: <71F627FD-4E2E-4E8D-B73E-433368CE3B6B@lepiller.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpLq6-0000XV-Bu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:33:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpLq4-0005vB-Nl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:33:46 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpLq4-0005uX-Fk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:33:44 -0500 In-reply-to: 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: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel Hartmut Goebel writes: >> and have a phase to build a union of these with symlinks. Hopefully, >> maven will follow the symlinks. > > The drawback of this approach is: This only works within the > build-system. Since within a normal environment or profile, there will > be no such unison repo. Thus for every day's work, users will still > download artifacts from the Internet and will not be able to use those > already installed on the system. A profile *is* a union of all installed packages. If that=E2=80=99s not en= ough and more configuration is required we could do that in a profile hook. -- Ricardo