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Re: Reducing useless module imports


From: Maxime Devos
Subject: Re: Reducing useless module imports
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2023 15:12:22 +0100
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On 03-02-2023 18:11, Julien Lepiller wrote:
gnu packages minetest) imports (guix build-system
minetest) but never uses the minetest-build-system. (gnu packages
abiword) uses (guix build-system gnu) but does not use the
gnu-build-system.


The build-system minetest-build-system does not exist; it's minetest-mod-build-system, which happens to be defined in (guix build-system build-system). As such, (gnu packages minetest) actually does use (guix build-system minetest).

The idea was that in the future we might also package 'subgames' and texture packages, for which a 'minetest-subgame-build-system' and 'minetest-texture-pack-build-system' build system could be defined. It seemed a bit pointless to me to put those not-yet-defined build systems in separate modules.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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