From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Soo Subject: Re: Overhauling the cargo-build-system Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:37:05 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iW14R-0000dJ-FA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:37:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iW14P-0006YH-Hs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:37:10 -0500 Received: from mail-ot1-x329.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::329]:37066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iW14P-0006Xp-80 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:37:09 -0500 Received: by mail-ot1-x329.google.com with SMTP id d5so10757931otp.4 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:37:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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: Martin Becze Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Guix-devel Hi all, I agree with this: > The whole point of package management is that you can use module > building blocks. By having to specify the sub-dependencies in a top > level definition kinda breaks the whole modular thing. It is quite frustrating to have to specify transitive dependencies at the to= p level. I=E2=80=99m not sure what else is to be done, though. - John=