From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add hmmer
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 20:23:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpywhqej.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150621181131.GA17424@thebird.nl>
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
> It is quite common in bioinformatics tools to include foreign code.
> One reason in favour of including the original setup that is it is
> THAT what the authors and others test and run. Bringing in our own
> dependencies is bound to open a can of worms - there often is a reason
> they bring in that packaged code. One reason is that they depend on an older
> version ;).
With Guix we have no problem with packaging older versions. I have
untangled a number of applications with bundled libraries before. It is
doable, better for reproducibility, and better for security.
I often submit bug reports upstream when I encounter bundling when
attempting to package software and I encourage others to do the same.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-21 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-21 8:52 [PATCH] gnu: Add hmmer Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-21 9:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-21 10:17 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-21 17:17 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-06-21 18:11 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-06-21 18:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2015-06-24 1:37 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-24 1:48 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-24 1:52 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-24 4:41 ` Mark H Weaver
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