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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Parameterized packages
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:23:14 +0100
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>

Hi Pierre,

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 11:13, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
>
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Maybe I misread something and/or I misunderstand other thing but the
> > symbols 'video-player' and 'python' need to be defined somewhere. And
> > with this proposal adding the field 'parameters', this somewhere is
> > outside the package. Therefore, I will end up to a big mess, IMHO.
>
> I think you misread indeed :p

Maybe I misread. :-)
I am still convinced that it is not the correct design and instead be
able to partially override the package definition seems more
appropriate.

At the end, code is law. :-)


Cheers,
simon