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To: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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Hi,

Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> One example is =E2=80=9Ckentutils=E2=80=9D in (gnu packages bioinformati=
cs).  It has
>> =E2=80=9Csamtabix=E2=80=9D among its native-inputs and these additional =
sources are
>> unpacked in a separate build phase =E2=80=9Cprepare-samtabix=E2=80=9D.
>
> Ah, thanks!
>
> Has anyone done or considered a rough idiom conversion guide from RPM
> specs (maybe also for dpkg, but that's less prescribed)?  I can see
> possible problems, but it might be useful.

Not that I know of, but why not.

Honestly it=E2=80=99s unclear to me that this would bring much to
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Defining-Packages.html>
and related sections.  Call it propaganda if you want, but I still find
this much simpler than Debian packaging (I=E2=80=99m not too familiar with =
RPM.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.