From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: the upcoming Great Python2 =?utf-8?Q?Purge=E2=84=A2?= Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:16:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20181226093812.GR2581@macbook41> <20190218095619.GC7206@macbook41> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvfz5-0005ED-Jz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:17:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvfz2-0007ZZ-03 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:17:09 -0500 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:59679) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvfyy-0007Vq-6H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:17:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20190218095619.GC7206@macbook41> 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: Efraim Flashner , guix-devel@gnu.org Efraim Flashner writes: > I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* > packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now > get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. Please be careful with "leaf packages". The leaves of my software dependency tree are in my home directory, not in Guix. But I depend on Guix to supply most of the dependencies of these leaves. In the case of Python, any package that provides a Python library API should not be considered a leaf package. Konrad.