From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: r: Update to 3.3.1. Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:20:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9b4i3ua.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874m77gpll.fsf@gnu.org> <8660rmgbgh.fsf@gmail.com> <20160731040956.GA22271@thebird.nl> <87popup2e9.fsf@gnu.org> <8660rllmur.fsf@gmail.com> <20160801060032.GB26920@thebird.nl> <86eg68cstn.fsf@gmail.com> <874m745kci.fsf@elephly.net> 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]:46330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUKdK-0004jA-AQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:20:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUKdG-0004Qn-5j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:20:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874m745kci.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Mon, 01 Aug 2016 22:02:05 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, myglc2 Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > This obviously depends on the quality of the importers, but I think it > wouldn=E2=80=99t take much effort to make this a reality. The main probl= em with > offering magic like this is that it must be reliable or else it would > just be frustrating users. It=E2=80=99s indeed doable (we just need to generate a on the fly, which is essentially what importers do), and was part of the plan. But as you note, the likely problem is that some packages won=E2=80=99t bui= ld, for instance because we have incomplete or inaccurate dependency information, and may be poorly integrated. Nevertheless it=E2=80=99s worth trying! Ludo=E2=80=99.