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Subject: Re: Grafts
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:27:41 +0100
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I went ahead and merged the guts of =E2=80=98wip-grafts=E2=80=99.  This cha=
nges the ABI,
so make sure to run:

  make clean-go && make

> However, the =E2=80=98graft-derivation=E2=80=99 procedure is not recursiv=
e: it grafts
> the derivation you give it, but doesn=E2=80=99t graft its dependencies.

This problem is not addressed yet, but I decided to postpone it,
probably until after 0.8 (I have the beginnings of a fix, but nothing
baked yet), so we can move forward.

To summarize, we can already use grafts, via the =E2=80=98replacement=E2=80=
=99 field of
a package, but there are some cases where it will not do exactly what we
want.  Please send a message if you want to use it and are unsure.

Ludo=E2=80=99.