Hi Sarthak, Sarthak Shah <shahsarth...@gmail.com> skribis:
> Thanks for having me onboard! > I hope that my project will prove useful to Guix. Welcome on board!! Really happy to have you here. > My project is about implementing Parameterized Packages, which will add > optional Gentoo USE flag-like functionality to Guix packages. This will not > only help reduce package size but also provide users with greater choice > with how they'd like to use their packages. I believe that this should also > help somewhat relieve the issue of the denseness of guix's dependency > graphs, which was recently being discussed here on the mailing list. > > Due to the nature of this project, it will involve taking a lot of inputs > from the Guix community, and thus you can expect a regular thread or two > with updates/feature discussions on this topic in the mailing list. Indeed! Like you write, there’s a lot of potential with parameterized packages, and I’m confident you can make great strides in this area. Oh, and ‘--with-configure-flags’ is already a success among HPC people I’ve talked to! :-) Cheers, Ludo’.
