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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1683495423; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=VvsJCVnqUTonEjuKoJ9J/jKkZ6b0w+P1bLpuweGWPhZU+jQdmHP6rE2GTJzbsZEMD+OGkT G1N3vuVVy8thOoRe7Ws7IU2nn/xaK+2CrH2ONDbCx11FLSnTvAREhOYzezdCDb87kiro27 T4YX6pwvQcEF+X0PFGOv2909cUK047WxzCDv+CPX47Atph18WL3taEVnAttAV+d12cd9oc aLYhaKdBbVmMxF2n2ME/mJivc17d7aSSjINo1PJEdTg/yoSnzX+KWTUt3tifJDKqovlzco F2mz7ygDejDrRpVVKz6SG9lZLCXsOMmzMwG6SXJBmdejvLG/0RonhAxxYtVUiw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=e8vcm8Rp; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1683495423; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=iexfqDLh7jhbrc3vewapteW2qTzuLh8HUm/CHDImRZQ=; b=ktNAxY5Pi96Dmus1okVDSQ2Rrtcn6s8D2bG81d+iomf1WwM6UZH4jAY5B6VqLxyJ7Z04Cc dBFsNHEzDTnUaJ+h24tDwccBaKcBgKzmfk6z9KchKYR3okcf/bRUsLEK+pyPnTf+xn0hCw srCOay8j3uhr/N1ndRmoySTQzTALy1M/+dvm0ZEElV0aOOpEwAaept5h38q2QJywAsn1/u YsGTM/Q6A/7ZFBWXydcSlOhgbdhNg1nL07aI68DVX3ba6IuRYTmG0pEx2k7vRkHqTyKJf2 BKDBuM5pk8tFS8MFHWdJcK2cvzdph4DGJxYTso6cgo/LBDknPHjtNUztHYN9hA== X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=e8vcm8Rp; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.18 X-Spam-Score: -6.18 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: E0B9E202CE X-TUID: SgBzsL3wU0wo Hi Sarthak, Sarthak Shah skribis: > Thanks for having me onboard! > I hope that my project will prove useful to Guix. Welcome on board!! Really happy to have you here. > My project is about implementing Parameterized Packages, which will add > optional Gentoo USE flag-like functionality to Guix packages. This will n= ot > only help reduce package size but also provide users with greater choice > with how they'd like to use their packages. I believe that this should al= so > help somewhat relieve the issue of the denseness of guix's dependency > graphs, which was recently being discussed here on the mailing list. > > Due to the nature of this project, it will involve taking a lot of inputs > from the Guix community, and thus you can expect a regular thread or two > with updates/feature discussions on this topic in the mailing list. Indeed! Like you write, there=E2=80=99s a lot of potential with parameteri= zed packages, and I=E2=80=99m confident you can make great strides in this area. Oh, and =E2=80=98--with-configure-flags=E2=80=99 is already a success among= HPC people I=E2=80=99ve talked to! :-) Cheers, Ludo=E2=80=99.