Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >> Cook, Malcolm <m...@stowers.org> writes: >> > + Guix development is open source. It is open to input from all >> > community members. >> >> It’s free software ;) >> >> Maybe it’s also good to mention that you do not need to rely on Guix >> upstream to add packages. It is trivial to use custom packages with >> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. > > It can't be overstated *how* trivial it is. I've found that users of > mutable-state package managers just don't believe me when I tell them. > It's even easy to have out-of-tree packages, pulled in with > GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, that depend on in-tree packages or package updates > that you haven't upstreamed yet.
I’ve been thinking that we should add a “Defining Package Variants” section beneath or after the “Defining Packages” node in the manual, showing how to ‘inherit’ from an existing package, etc. Any takers? :-) Ludo’.
