From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output. Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:41:30 +0000 Message-ID: <87r33yvwrp.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <20170104180705.5733-1-ng0@libertad.pw> <20170104180705.5733-2-ng0@libertad.pw> <87k2a4poef.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9zg7cjb.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87eg0cnw7a.fsf@gnu.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]:48935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUWcR-00050P-0P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 05:40:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUWcN-00068W-SF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 05:40:31 -0500 Received: from perdizione.investici.org ([94.23.50.208]:48101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUWcN-00065d-Ie for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 05:40:27 -0500 Received: from [94.23.50.208] (perdizione [94.23.50.208]) (Authenticated sender: niasterisk@grrlz.net) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D26E91206D8 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:40:22 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87eg0cnw7a.fsf@gnu.org> 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" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hey, > > ng0 skribis: > >> Mkpasswd has nothing to do with whois, and upstream says so. I >> think we should be able to install whois and just have whois, not >> some random "historical bundled" binary in addition to whois. >> I'm just stating the sizes as in comparison to the other outputs >> they sometimes matter even if its just KiB. >> >> Like I've written in the opening email, another approach could be >> to simply delete mkpasswd from the output build and create an >> 'mkpasswd' package (inheriting from whois) which does the same >> for whois. > > I might be overlooking something, but my gut reaction is that (1) it=E2= =80=99s > not =E2=80=9Cbundling=E2=80=9D in that we don=E2=80=99t have any other = package providing > mkpasswd, and (2) it=E2=80=99s up to upstream to decide whether or not = to > distribute mkpasswd. > > WDYT? > > Ludo=E2=80=99. > And upstreams decision is not to do it (on making it a choice not to build it or to move it to another tarball): "No, but thank you for asking." I think it's informative and neutral enough that I can just share this. So we stick with the default case? I'm still in favor for making it separate guix packages. --=20 =E2=99=A5=E2=92=B6 ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/