Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > I could call "tar" myself, but then I would also need to copy > first-subdirectory from gnu-build-system. So having a trivial-build-system > consisting of the phases 'set-paths and 'unpack from gnu-build-system > would be very useful, and also make packages that currently use the trivial > system more easy to write. (I am taking font-dejavu as a model; we would > not need to set PATH to include bzip2, call tar explicitly and chdir into > the created directory).
Yeah, perhaps we need some sort of an intermediate between trivial-build-system and gnu-build-system. The idea is that trivial-build-system really does nothing (and it does it well!). And then, (guix build gnu-build-system) exports its phases, so it’s always possible to reuse them, as David noted. Ludo’.
