On Sun, Jul 24, 2022, at 11:17 PM, Maxime Devos wrote: > * Patches must not be used to remove non-free files, because a patch by > construction contains the non-free file itself so the patch would be > non-free, which would not be acceptable to Guix. Likewise, patches should not > be used to remove bundled libraries, to avoid large space usage, but this is > not an absolute rule unlike as for non-free files.
It is possible to create patches that do not contain the deleted file, e.g. with `git format-patch --irreversible-delete`. That said, I don't know if the version of `patch` we use to patch origins is able to apply such patches—but maybe it would be a useful feature? -Philip
