Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add r-vegan.

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 19/06/16 23:48, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:47:53PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> > > * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-vegan): New variable.
> > > * gnu/packages/patches/vegan-revert-test-deletion.patch: New file.
> > This patch is 460K uncompressed. gzip reduces it to 124K. Currently
> > `guix pull` downloads a 10.2 MiB tarball. Just food for thought ;)
> Heh.  AIUI, the patch simply removes files; it’s more space-efficient
> and clearer to do it in a ‘snippet’.

The idea is actually to revert the deletion (of the test files).

Instead of including the 'revert' patch taking up space, I sourced the 
patch from GitHub as a native-input and applied it in reverse, and 
pushed this series.

Thanks for picking this up.
ben