l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...]
> What is more scary is massive imports from external repos (CPAN, etc.). > I think we cannot handle all of it, not with our “quality” guidelines > and not with the pace at which these repos change. > > At the GHM, we were discussing that, probably, we’ll have to accept for > Guix to be a gateway to those repos (at least for the “non-core” subsets > of the repos). Concretely, one could do “guix package -i cpan!Foo::Bar” > and have the package DAG imported and built live. It’s either that or > people will use CPAN’s own tools to achieve this. > > Thoughts? I think as long as our tools for massively updating packages automatically (guix refresh -u) are on par with our tools to massively import (guix import) there shouldn't be too many problems? Maxim
