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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
  f00b85ff8d.

Co-Authored-By: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@ -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