Re: Adopt a patch!

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Arun,
> 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.

Unfortunately, this cannot be done for all packages from CPAN, because
many of these packages are used as inputs for other packages that cannot
be installed through importers.

For CRAN updates we’re doing pretty well, I think, but we will certainly
need to improve our update efforts for packages from CPAN and Hackage.

I would like to exclude leaf packages from these repositories in the
future (once the importers become more usable for non-developers), but
I’m not sure that this would help much for all the packages we have
added as inputs for non-importable packages.

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Ricardo

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