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| author | Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> | 2018-02-27 05:25:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> | 2018-02-27 05:29:37 +0100 |
| commit | a1df45e904caf4d26f6e44d07ce74881bb25ecd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b098ab439d2f2bcfb1bb60cefb1372ff162a72d | |
| parent | 701cfb9b333973f242043497b3231b5ea296282b (diff) | |
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gnu: commencement: Add commentary regarding grafts.
* gnu/packages/commencement.scm: Add comments that were originally
included only in the Git commit message of
f00b85ff8d34df0a1879e593d4a85629b8586af7.
Co-Authored-By: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm index 7286e954c5..c38f40f618 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm @@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ ;;; To avoid circular dependencies, this module should not be imported ;;; directly from anywhere. ;;; +;;; Below, we frequently use "inherit" to create modified packages. The +;;; reason why we use "inherit" instead of "package/inherit" is because we do +;;; not want these commencement packages to inherit grafts. By definition, +;;; these packages are not depended on at run time by any of the packages we +;;; use. Thus it does not make sense to inherit grafts. Furthermore, those +;;; grafts would often lead to extra overhead for users who would end up +;;; downloading those "-boot0" packages just to build package replacements +;;; that are in fact not going to be used. +;;; ;;; Code: (define gnu-make-boot0 |