On 2017-01-26 09:11, Chris Marusich wrote:
We have "guix build -S foo" which fetches the source. It sounds like
you're suggesting that we remove this and replace it with a "source"
(or
"debug-full") output for each package, so to get the source you would
run "guix build foo:source" instead. Is my understanding correct?
Interesting idea (:source, not :debug-full)! Two minor points:
Won't that mean that the package has to be built to completion at least
once, somewhere, to output its own :source? If so, adding special-case
code to avoid that would not be a net win.
We'd also have to choose between keeping a misleading name, 'outputs',
and a global bike-sed.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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