Re: GNU Distribution

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> This was actually my first deception with Guix: I was looking forward to
> contributing a GNU MPC package, since there was no file mpc.scm; but it
> is actually available, only via multiprecision.scm :-)
>
> Why not having one file per package?

Currently we have more-or-less one file per package, except for sets of
closely related packages, like GMP/MPFR/MPC.

There’s a slight overhead associated with each file (license header,
module declaration, module imports, additional ‘stats’ when doing
package searches or ‘--list-available’, etc.)  That’s why I thought we
could try an in-between approach like this.

I’m open to suggestions on this front, though!

Thanks,
Ludo’.