Hi, On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 at 23:55, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant >> instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages. Doing >> so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’, >> which could be used then by --list-dependent. > > In effect that means keeping back the chain of inherited objects, which > would lead to space leaks. [...] > I agree it’d be nice to solve. I can’t think of a good way to do that > though. What do you mean by “space leaks”? Well, we already have ways to create variants collecting information, as ’package-with-python2’ or ’package-with-ocamlX.0Y’, and ’package/inherit’ is somehow another one. Why would it not be a good way? Cheers, simon
