Re: 29/88: gnu: Add emacs-let-alist.

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Oleg Pykhalov (2018-05-04 21:50 +0300) wrote:

> In addion to my previous answer.
>
> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:
>
> […]
>
>>> 'let-alist' is a part of Emacs (that's why it was removed by commit
>>> 469c7ce0¹).  Is there a reason to add it?
>
> […]
>
>> Elpa importer could probably exclude ‘let-alist’ in ‘propagated-inputs’.
>
> Should I remove ‘let-alist’ now?

I am not the man to decide, but I would remove it :-)

> Maybe we could implement exclude
> mechanism for ‘let-alist’ and then remove ‘let-alist’?

I don't understand what mechanism you mean.  Why it cannot simply be
removed?

> ‘let-alist’
> shouln't clutter much if it stays in Guix package collection for a time.

But why should it stay?  Since Emacs includes it, and it is not a
dependency for any package, I don't see a reason to keep it.


-- 
Alex