From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Jul 12 04:47:44 2021 Received: (at 49169) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jul 2021 08:47:44 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36533 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m2rbM-0008QG-4O for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:47:44 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53162) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m2rbK-0008Q2-AX for 49169@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:47:42 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m2rbE-00048X-G7; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:47:36 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e34:ec7d:930:eb2e:c349:7011:a75] (port=42666 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m2rbE-0005t1-5l; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:47:36 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Sarah Morgensen Subject: Re: bug#49169: [PATCH 00/11] Removing input labels from package definitions References: <20210622090221.15182-1-ludo@gnu.org> <20210630204832.25753-1-ludo@gnu.org> <868s2ekbw5.fsf_-_@mgsn.dev> <87pmvpahgq.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <865yxgjbx0.fsf_-_@mgsn.dev> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 Messidor an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:47:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <865yxgjbx0.fsf_-_@mgsn.dev> (Sarah Morgensen's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 2021 23:15:07 -0700") Message-ID: <87h7gz9avt.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 49169 Cc: 49169@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hi! Sarah Morgensen skribis: > I have submitted a patchset [0] which just has the crate importer use > the same sanitizer as package inputs, which should be good enough until > we get rid of input labels in the internals. Excellent, I=E2=80=99ll take a look. > In the longer term, perhaps we would benefit from some way of indicating > inputs which are just source? Something like > > (package ... (source-inputs ...)) > > where the listed packages only provide their source instead of any > outputs, and only transitively include other packages via source-inputs. > This would bypass any patching done in phases, but I don't think that's > common enough in these "source" packages that it would be onerous to use > origin patches/snippets instead. This would be useful for any build > system which does not (re)use artifacts from a package's dependencies > (such as cargo and go). Yeah, I really don=E2=80=99t know. I thought we could just as well say that =E2=80=98inputs=E2=80=99 means =E2=80=9Csource inputs=E2=80=9D for those pa= ckages (and indeed that=E2=80=99s what happens for Go packages), but I always fail to wrap my head around the specific needs and constraints of Cargo and Go. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.