Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-02 16:09 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> 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
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Mathieu Lirzin
