On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> wrote:
> * add --binary option to importer, sets (arguments (#:binary? #t)) This violates a core principle of Guix: reproducible builds. I don't support patches that encourage using pre-built binaries. > As a first attempt, I tried to recursively import `q', a fairly basic > package from my possibly ignorant perspective: can you write anything > non-trivial in node without using q?. When that resulted in over 6004 > dependencies (using build systems grunt, gulp and node-gyp, listing 582 > errors), I was pretty sure there was a problem with your importer. > Using the --binary option, q has no dependencies. None. Single > package. Hmm. That's because the thing on npm has already been built for you. q *does* have dependencies if you want to build it from source, which is what we should all be striving for. - Dave
