Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add Mlucas.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Paul van der Walt <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 2015-10-26 at 12:49, quoth Alex Vong:
>> I don't know there is maths.scm! Is there a general guideline on where
>> to put new package definition? For example, putting elisp packages in
>> emacs.scm is pretty obvious but how about other cases?
>
> I am far from the right person to be answering this question, but my
> heuristic is usually something like "find another similar
> package/application and append the definition to that file".  In other
> cases, it's ambiguous though, for example i recently added 'dosbox to
> games.scm (even though it's not a game) and 'cmus to music.scm (even
> though it's a media player and music.scm also contains a lot of
> music-making software, but one of the alternatives, mpd.scm, seemed too
> specific).  I guess it's a seat-of-your-pants thing, but i am open to
> correction.

I think that’s a good summary.  It’s a joyful mess, as we say in French.
;-)

Ludo’.