Re: Adopt a patch!

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

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> What is more scary is massive imports from external repos (CPAN, etc.).
> I think we cannot handle all of it, not with our “quality” guidelines
> and not with the pace at which these repos change.
>
> At the GHM, we were discussing that, probably, we’ll have to accept for
> Guix to be a gateway to those repos (at least for the “non-core” subsets
> of the repos).  Concretely, one could do “guix package -i cpan!Foo::Bar”
> and have the package DAG imported and built live.  It’s either that or
> people will use CPAN’s own tools to achieve this.
>
> Thoughts?

I think as long as our tools for massively updating packages
automatically (guix refresh -u) are on par with our tools to massively
import (guix import) there shouldn't be too many problems?

Maxim