On 09-08-2022 12:47, Andreas Enge wrote: > [...] Recently there has > been a preference in the Guix project for git repositories when autotools > are involved, as they make it possible to recreate the configure scripts > from their source. But since this is not the case here, the argument does > not hold. I am not aware of such a preference, do you have a source? Switching to git repositories in one method to build from source, but there exist other methods too that keep the official distribution method, e.g. (for-each delete-file '("configure" ...)) in a snippet. It's a method to a goal, but not a goal on itself as far as I'm aware. Greetings, Maxime.