Hi Jason,

Jason Conroy <[email protected]> skribis:

> So I'd like to know: what are the best practices for these two related
> features? Unfortunately I wasn't able to find much info in the manual.

Private packages (using ‘define’ instead of ‘define-public’) should
rather be avoided because they are invisible to ‘fold-packages’, which
then causes Cuirass to behave poorly:

  https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/6781

Then the question becomes when to mark a package as hidden.  This is
still unwritten knowledge, but existing practice is along these lines:

  https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/5996#issuecomment-10828109

HTH!

Ludo’.

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