From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Re: Reproducible profiles Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 15:27:50 -0400 Message-ID: <87wq0780nd.fsf@fsf.org> References: <87pp62iqmn.fsf@fsf.org> <87egmgu609.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8x4dabt.fsf@gmail.com> 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]:35170) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yu4EE-00061K-Bz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:28:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yu4ED-00056u-Gj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:28:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a8x4dabt.fsf@gmail.com> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?5a6L5paH5q2m?= , Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org =E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6 writes: > +1 for return 'manifest', in a same way as 'operating-system'. > And how about use specification instead of package, so I can: > > (manifest > (map package-specification->manifest-entry > '("emacs" > "font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn"))) I don't like that idea because the text specification is just a syntax for shell users. In Scheme, we can use the package objects directly rather than encode them as strings. --=20 David Thompson GPG Key: 0FF1D807