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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -0.61 X-Spam-Score: -0.61 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 612A852D0A X-Migadu-Scanner: mx11.migadu.com X-TUID: bmBiBXYhOgS0 > Preparing a large set of updates like this is already a great deal of > work. It does not seem to me like a good use of volunteers' time to ask > them to break such an update into hundreds of tiny pieces, especially > not if the result is hundreds of broken commits to Guix. fair enough. in that paragraph i did not consider the consts, only the bene= fits of the two approaches. i myself also had headaches multiple times when i fixed something that need= ed to touch several different packages, and they would only work when appli= ed in one transaction: how many debbugs issues? multiple issues and record the dependencies? littl= e gain for much more effort on both sides... but if one issue, then what sh= ould be the name of the debbugs issue? etc... the contribution process has quite some accidental complexity, and it most = probably turns away valuable potential contributors... which is something t= hat is both hard to notice, and has a strong impact. but this has already b= een discussed in a long thread recently. --=20 =E2=80=A2 attila lendvai =E2=80=A2 PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- =E2=80=9CAs long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new di= mensions of the soul will not emerge.=E2=80=9D =09=E2=80=94 Henry Van Dyke (1852=E2=80=931933)