2016-08-02 16:09 GMT+02:00 ng0 <n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is>: > > Recent change -> 0.10.2 will be out soon™. > > > For the collaborative Gentoo overlay I share work with, many packages > I contributed either originate there or got their first year of practice > and debugging there and when I started to contribute to Guix, they > started moving into Guix master. > However we have some packages which can not make it into guix master in > their (current) form (one example: powwow. unaltered it came into Guix, > but we still patch it for Gentoo. Best case scenario would be to patch > it upstream). I am testing for the best way to transition the packages > which do not fit into Guix master to a form which does not depend on > maintaining another Guix checkout (too many wip packages on my side, and > it must mean low maintenance costs). > > This is what I mean with out-of-tree. >
Thanks for your clarifications. Why don't these packages fit into Guix master ? Could you provide a list of these packages ? Someone could take the initiative to try to work on one of those and you could be lifted from the brunt Just maybe.
