On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 09:34:18PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> * gnu/packages/certs.scm (nss-certs): Stop inheriting from nss package. > > > > Why do we want to do this? > > > > It appears to me that the resulting package would be the same. Is there > > a plan to let the versions diverge in the future? > > We have a module cycle when using the certs module from the java > module. By separating “nss-certs” from the “nss” package we break the > cycle. Ludo explained it well in this email: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-06/msg00648.html > > >> +;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> > > > > Is this intentional? > > Yes. This patch is almost exactly the same as what Ludo proposed in the > email above. I cannot take credit for this.
Ah, thanks for explaining!
