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| author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-03-01 18:04:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-03-01 18:04:12 +0100 |
| commit | 86990eeda2a85acd3640059c0b681f1eddbacba0 (patch) | |
| tree | df0d4f0b86dad2b260b7354d451993c141dde5e7 /gnu/packages/commencement.scm | |
| parent | 6d796220c417a34100c282a7fa1f9afb6ac00339 (diff) | |
| parent | 52fb59ef253d9550ca4cfa095c2c0c2360d79095 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into staging
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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 |