@abcdw Not for upstreaming :-)? | Sharlatan

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@abcdw Not for upstreaming :-)?

Like 13 February at 23:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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@sharlatan Nope.

Also, I'm in doubt how benificial is to package language-specific deps in Guix channel.

I think it's better to cooperate with language package manager devs and make lock-file->guix-package-with-deps API, which will work flawlessly.

14 February at 7:19 | Open on fosstodon.org

Sharlatan

@abcdw In my case of astronomical packages most of them comes with C bindings which
make sense to reproduce ;-)

14 February at 23:23 | Open on mastodon.social

@sharlatan I don't say it doesn't make sense to reproduce, I just say that 1. it should be easier to generate guix packages from lock files. 2. better not to polute already beefy guix repo with packages, which can be easily generated on demand from lock files.

15 February at 7:44 | Open on fosstodon.org

Sharlatan

@abcdw It makes sense, if the packages do not require patching or like NixOs which has dedicated repository for packages.

15 February at 8:39 | Open on mastodon.social

@abcdw @sharlatan Huge agree. I've been reluctant to update our Yggdrasil package because even with the import and refresh tooling it's a goddamn slog. And I wrote the original definition *before* we had a Go importer.
It's no surprise that so many Guix packages are outdated.

16 February at 16:57 | Open on merveilles.town