Re: Feedback, ideas, discussion: tracking patches, discussions, bugs.

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 05:19:45AM +1000, Brendan Tildesley wrote:
> On 2016-09-04 02:55, David Craven wrote:
> >> Today was pretty much an E-mail overload on the ML. In itself amazing :)
> > I agree. If you aren't a full time guix developer it's hard to keep
> > up. The only way I can keep up is by marking the emails I'm not
> > interested in quickly as read =P Just reading all emails is a time
> > commitment in itself...
> >
> I was going to post a patch over several files removing redundant
> mkdir-p expressions,
> 
> but decided against it! If you run something like  `ack '\(install-file'
> -B 7| ack  'mkdir-p' -A 7'
> 
> You can see them, since install-file already contains a mkdir-p. Also It
> seems like
> 
> (let ((out  (assoc-ref outputs "out")))...) is set in almost every
> package definition,
> 
> as if having some symbol for the outputs already might be more efficient??
> 

If its just one I sometime just use %outputs, but this also only works
when the only output is "out". We don't want too much "special magic" in
the packaging definitions also.

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