Workflow recommendation for workarounds

2018-11-27 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello guix, I have a workflow recommendation for tracking cases where we have to work around bugs in packages we can't upgrade for a long time: 1. create a bug report for the buggy package. (Let's call this the primary bug) 2. when making a modification to work around the bug create another bug r

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-27 Thread Kei Kebreau
Hello all, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > n...@n0.is skribis: > >> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some >> cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). > > That randomness is very limited in practice, if I may. :-) > > https://gnu.org/softw

Naming of node packages with @ and /

2018-11-27 Thread swedebugia
Hi There are some crazy naming going on in the node-community. How do we deal with this? Note: there is another package called "babel-core" so just stripping/replacing the weird characters won't work well. Any ideas? Look this example: https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/packages/b

Packaging node-mocha

2018-11-27 Thread swedebugia
Hi people I asked on a couple of popular packages to get a list of what devdeps were actually needed to build the package. Here is an example of a response: Out of 36 devdeps only 4 are builddeps and another 2 are testdeps. I use answers like these to populate my blacklist which now has about

Re: Naming of node packages with @ and /

2018-11-27 Thread Catonano
Il giorno mar 27 nov 2018 alle ore 21:58 swedebugia ha scritto: > Hi > > There are some crazy naming going on in the node-community. How do we > deal with this? > > Note: there is another package called "babel-core" so just > stripping/replacing the weird characters won't work well. > > Any ideas

Re: 03/03: gnu: clang-from-llvm: Clean up share/clang folder.

2018-11-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Pierre, guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > ambrevar pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit 1c7372a5aadea84165376a4b8e2664b67a663c56 > Author: Pierre Neidhardt > Date: Mon Nov 26 14:51:40 2018 +0100 > > gnu: clang-from-llvm: Clean up share/clang folder. > >

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add rclone.

2018-11-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Nicolas, guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > ngz pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit 8b5e2e94afdef6430583c3a0ef02fe2d7fcc16d1 > Author: Nicolas Goaziou > Date: Sun Nov 25 01:14:28 2018 +0100 > > gnu: Add rclone. > > * gnu/packages/sync.scm (rclone): New