Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: > Mathieu Lirzin (2016-08-08 20:53 +0300) wrote: > >> David Craven <da...@craven.ch> writes: >> >>> Quoting Ludo from the thread you mentioned: >>> >>>> (Besides, our package meta-data would probably still refer to the “real” >>>> home page of the package, from which it’s trivial to get the unmodified >>>> tarball.) >>> >>> The discussion only applies to 'guix build --source' and I can't see any >>> indication from reading the thread that displaying the original source url >>> would be in any way problematic. Can you quote something from that >>> thread that would indicate otherwise? >> >> I don't need to quote anything to think that: >> >> - Providing a user tool to fetch a tarball >> - Displaying a direct link to a tarball in our UI > > But a user already can look at any package info (including the source > URL) using "guix edit" command, so I don't see a reason why "guix > package --show" can't display the same info.
I am just claiming that the two things above are equivalent and that as a consequence we can't refuse one and accept the other. I am not discussing the "why", only applying logic. -- Mathieu Lirzin
