From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Dealing with mass rebuilds Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:34:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87oafmk4yo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151020161651.4759.8347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87zizd2ymv.fsf@netris.org> <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20151020214716.GA7835@debian> <87fv149nlz.fsf@gnu.org> <874mhipsst.fsf@denknerd.org> 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]:47396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqSvt-0005Qm-63 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:34:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqSvp-0002Lz-Se for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:34:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874mhipsst.fsf@denknerd.org> (Paul van der Walt's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:11:30 +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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Paul van der Walt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Paul van der Walt skribis: > On 2015-10-21 at 18:45, quoth Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: >> The TeX Live issue is orthogonal: We seriously need a =E2=80=98texlive-m= inimal=E2=80=99 >> variant, and the full-blown =E2=80=98texlive=E2=80=99 must not be depend= ed on by any >> other package. > > Even more orthogonal: can packages be marked as leaves (or roots, > depending on your point of view) that may not be used as inputs? If not > that sounds like a potentially useful bit of package metadata. We could do that, but I=E2=80=99m not sure it=E2=80=99s useful, apart from = this very particular case. Do you have other uses in mind? Ludo=E2=80=99.