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On 11/28/2015 04:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Let's start smaller :)
>
> I rearranged the text and ended up with something different from
> your original patch but hopefully as informative in f6c9fb1.
And more concise :)
Thanks,
Flo
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Florian Paul Schmidt skribis:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:06:00 +0100
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> Sure. I think we would need a new section for (gnu packages), maybe
>> “Distribution API” under “GNU Distribution”? It would describe
>> ‘fold-packages’, ‘specification->package’, and
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:06:00 +0100
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Sure. I think we would need a new section for (gnu packages), maybe
> “Distribution API” under “GNU Distribution”? It would describe
> ‘fold-packages’, ‘specification->package’, and so on.
Let's start smaller :) [I'm sti
Florian Paul Schmidt skribis:
> sure, I'm fine with just a warning, too. Thought I'd just mention the
> possible problems that exist. If you want to, I can try and put
> together a patch for the docs..
Sure. I think we would need a new section for (gnu packages), maybe
“Distribution API” under
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On 11/16/2015 02:03 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Florian Paul Schmidt skribis:
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> I’m fine with documenting ‘specification->package’ as an alternate
> option. Its semantics are exactly the same as when referring to a
> package by name on the co
Florian Paul Schmidt skribis:
> +(define (find-guix-packages list-of-names)
> + (map
> + car
> + (map
> +find-packages-by-name
> +list-of-names)))
[...]
> I am aware that is maybe still too simplistic. E.g.: It might be good
> to check if the name is ambiguous instead of just takin
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Hi, and thanks for your reply..
On 11/15/2015 09:35 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think ‘specification->package’ from (gnu packages) is the
> procedure you want. Like this:
>
> (map specification->package '("guile-2" "gnupg-2.0" "coreutils"))
>
Florian Paul Schmidt skribis:
> Hi, and thanks for your reply..
>
> On 11/15/2015 09:35 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> I think ‘specification->package’ from (gnu packages) is the
>> procedure you want. Like this:
>>
>> (map specification->package '("guile-2" "gnupg-2.0" "coreutils"))
>>
>> It e
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Hi, I found a procedure like this (then at the top of my system
config.scm's) to be quite useful:
diff --git a/gnu/packages.scm b/gnu/packages.scm
index fb27738..63500ab 100644
- --- a/gnu/packages.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages.scm
@@ -228,6 +228,14 @@ de
