Re: Debugging and source code

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

On 2017-01-26 09:11, Chris Marusich wrote:
> We have "guix build -S foo" which fetches the source.  It sounds like
> you're suggesting that we remove this and replace it with a "source" 
> (or
> "debug-full") output for each package, so to get the source you would
> run "guix build foo:source" instead.  Is my understanding correct?

Interesting idea (:source, not :debug-full)! Two minor points:

Won't that mean that the package has to be built to completion at least 
once, somewhere, to output its own :source? If so, adding special-case 
code to avoid that would not be a net win.

We'd also have to choose between keeping a misleading name, 'outputs', 
and a global bike-sed.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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