bug#25836: [PATCH] gnu: Add gspell

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis:

> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Subject: Re: bug#25836: [PATCH] gnu: Add gspell
> Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 16:24:18 +0200
>
>>> I'm not really familiar with the gobject system, but I suppose
>>> generating the bindings is useful? :)
>>
>> For now we don’t have any users of gspell at all, let alone users of
>> its
>> Vala bindings, so perhaps we can leave it as is?
>>
>> Building the docs to a separate “doc” output could be marginally
>> useful,
>> I think.
>
> For me, it's me as it is.

Hi! Is it you?  :-)

> I have no use for those bindings or the documentation myself.  I just
> stumbled upon them while trying to debug the package, and thought I'd
> mention it just in case.
>
> When I submit a package, I usually try to enable as many options as I
> can, even though I don't use them myself, just in case someone might
> need them.  Maybe this is overkill?  Is there a general recommendation
> for Guix?

It depends!  The recommendation is to check what ‘guix size’ says and
weigh the usefulness/size ratio of the added dependency:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html

Ludo’.