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'-light' vs. '-minimal' packages
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Alex Kost |
Subject: |
'-light' vs. '-minimal' packages |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:41:18 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-02 16:09 +0300) wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> An alternative is to inherit from the “r” package in “statistics.scm”.
>>
>> (define-module (my own packages)
>> #:use-module (guix packages)
>> #:use-module (gnu packages statistics)
>> #:use-module (srfi srfi-1))
>>
>> (define-public my-r
>> (package (inherit r)
>> (name "my-r")
>> ;; modify only the inputs here
>> (native-inputs (alist-delete "texlive" (package-native-inputs r)))
>> (inputs (alist-delete "icedtea6" (package-inputs r)))))
>
> Speaking of which: should we get rid of icedtea6:jdk in the default R
> package (closure size: 1 GiB), and maybe of TeX Live (4 GiB)? Or should
> we provide, say, ‘r-light’ with the definition above?
We have ‘bash-light’ and ‘wpa-supplicant-light’; ‘bioperl-minimal’ and
‘cups-minimal’. I think we should stick to a single name for such
light/minimal packages. (I prefer "…-minimal")
--
Alex
- Re: Installing a custom package on Guix binary setup, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/09/01
- R dependencies, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/09/02
- '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages,
Alex Kost <=
- Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/09/02
- Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/09/02
- Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages, Alex Kost, 2015/09/03
- Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/09/03
- Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages, Alex Kost, 2015/09/04
- Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/09/05
Re: R dependencies, Vicente Vera, 2015/09/02