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Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages
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Mathieu Lirzin |
Subject: |
Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:26:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
> 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")
^^^
+1
--
Mathieu Lirzin
- 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, 2015/09/02
- Re: '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages,
Mathieu Lirzin <=
- 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
[PATCH] R dependencies, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/09/03