Re: guix edit mutt -- with new option, and dependency, how I got it working

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:06:49PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:45:51 -0500

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>> > I agree that we should build our Mutt with this option enabled.
>> > 
>> > If everyone agrees, the question is which database to use — we have gdbm
>> > and bdb in our package tree (I think tokyocabinet is a WIP). I have no
>> > idea which database is a better choice. What do people think?
>> 
>> Assuming mutt, gdbm and bdb build on all architectures, comparing guix graph
>> of mutt, gdbm and bdb, and the graph of the two databases is identical. The
>> only other input I have is that debian uses tokyocabinet as a dependancy.
>
> It looks like they both build on all architectures.
>
> Gdbm is a little smaller and it's a GNU project, so I vote for gdbm, in
> the absence of any knowledge of the two databases' technical merits.

+1.

(I wonder how this relates to the subject of this message, though.  ;-))

Ludo’.