> I was going to post a patch over several files removing redundant > mkdir-p expressions,
> but decided against it! If you run something like `ack '\(install-file' > -B 7| ack 'mkdir-p' -A 7' > You can see them, since install-file already contains a mkdir-p. I think this is going a little off-topic. > Also It seems like > (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))...) is set in almost every > package definition, > as if having some symbol for the outputs already might be more efficient?? If we start special-casing stuff, in no time we'll have a dozen special cases. I think that that makes package definitions harder to read. As it is currently there are a couple of primitives that do a good job for defining packages without obfuscating stuff. I think Ricardo already replied to this on IRC ;)
