Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> I see that you took care of removing non-free parts in a patch and a
> build phase. Since “guix build -S p7zip” doesn’t run the build phase
> users would still end up with a source archive containing the non-free
> parts. The best way is thus to remove things in a snippet.
>
> In “shogun” from the “machine-learning” module we remove supporting code
> for non-free features in a snippet by cutting out anything between some
> ifdef markers, but looking at the patch I see that it wouldn’t be
> feasible for p7zip.
Also note that it is not completely desirable for nonfree code to be
removed
with a patch, and is one of the reasons Guix supports snippets in the
first
place.
Is there a reason to not use a patch in this case? Or can we proceed
with packaging p7zip, using a patch to remove non-free parts?
We don’t want to have a “reverse image” of the non-free code in a
patch.
Arguably that would just be a derivative of the non-free code, so we
also couldn’t freely distribute it.