From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: emacs-build-system installs too many files Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:16:49 +0300 Message-ID: <87vaq6zz7i.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43051) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cz4q7-0000lH-1W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:16:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cz4q3-0003mo-TU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:16:55 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::236]:36598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cz4q3-0003lp-LD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:16:51 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-x236.google.com with SMTP id s141so44326492lfe.3 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Arun Isaac's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:33:35 +0530") 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: Arun Isaac Cc: guix-devel Arun Isaac (2017-04-14 14:33 +0530) wrote: > The install phase of the emacs-build-system simply copies all files to > the output directory. This ends up copying many unnecessary files such > as README, Makefile, tests, hidden files such as .gitignore, > .travis.yml, etc. MELPA package recipes, on the other hand, copy only a > subset of the files. This is provided by the :files property in their > recipe format (https://github.com/melpa/melpa#recipe-format). Quoting > from their github page: [...] > I suggest we modify the emacs-build-system to include a #:files argument > similar to MELPA's :files property. If others are fine with this, I will > start working on a patch. I totally agree! I suggested to remove non-"el[c]" files when Federico introduced the emacs-build-system. I mentioned it here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00301.html and a couple of times later :-) But I didn't do anything to implement this idea, and I think it would be really great if you will give it a try. Thank you! -- Alex