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Subject: Re: cannot use snippets with zip source
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:09 +0100
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Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> Is there a way to use snippets with zip archives?

Currently no, as you noted.  That could be fixed though (please file it
to bug-guix@gnu.org so we don=E2=80=99t lose track of it.)

> Could `patch-and-repack' be modified to use the package's "unpack"
> phase instead of implementing its own unpack mechanism?

Not really, but we can fix =E2=80=98patch-and-repack=E2=80=99 anyway.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.