From a1df45e904caf4d26f6e44d07ce74881bb25ecd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Marusich Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 05:25:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: commencement: Add commentary regarding grafts. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * gnu/packages/commencement.scm: Add comments that were originally included only in the Git commit message of f00b85ff8d34df0a1879e593d4a85629b8586af7. Co-Authored-By: Ludovic Courtès --- gnu/packages/commencement.scm | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) 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