On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:43:32PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
Am 10.11.2016 um 22:14 schrieb John Darrington:
> +(define-public util-linux/base
> (package
> - (name "util-linux")
> + (name "util-linux-base")
I'm in favour of naming the variable as the package. This eases using them.
I tried that. It seems that there is a precident to use /variant for the
variable.
However / is not permitted in the name
> +(define-public util-linux
> + (package
> + (inherit util-linux/base)
> + (name "util-linux")
> + (source (origin (inherit (package-source util-linux/base))))
I'm curious: Why do you need to inherit the package-source here?
Well I don't actually *need* to. I could have copied it. But I thought that
having 3 copies would make maintenance difficult---somebody might update one,
but forget the other two.
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