Hi Christopher, jgart,
Christopher Howard <christop...@librehacker.com> writes:
"jgart" <jg...@dismail.de> writes:
Hi guixers,
Should we include wiggle as a dependency of Emacs since it is
used by the diff-wiggle function from diff-mode.el?
For my part — an enthusiastic Emacs user — I'd be a little
hesitant to
go down the path of adding explicit package dependencies for
runtime
requirements of obscure commands. I would hate to think that one
day I
wouldn't be able to install or build the Emacs guix package
because
something was broken in the wiggle guix package. But I'm open
minded
to further arguments for this.
I agree with you, Emacs has a ton of stuff bundled with it, and I
think including such things would make for an unpleasant
experience for most users. One of the joys of Emacs is building a
system tailored for you, and that includes installing other
software in many cases.
Noting also that Debian’s packages agree with this: they don’t
depend on much.
It would be nice, I suppose, if Guix had something like
"recommended packages" in Debian.
I agree that this would be nice.
-- Ian
