Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 11.11.2016 um 17:03 schrieb John Darrington:
>     
>      > +(define-public util-linux
>      > +  (package
>      > +    (inherit util-linux/base)
>      > +    (name "util-linux")
>      > +    (source (origin (inherit (package-source util-linux/base))))
>      
>      I'm curious: Why do you need to inherit the package-source here?
>      
>
> Well I don't actually *need* to.  I could have copied it.  But I thought that
> having 3 copies would make maintenance difficult---somebody might update one,
> but forget the other two.

Sorry for not being precise enough. I meant why are us using "inherit"
here? I thought

    (source (package-source util-linux/base))

would suffice and result in the same?

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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