02/28: gnu: cl-slynk: Explain some naming choices.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

rekado pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 75e8b3af69dc3b1544c26ddd52bddb225f217d99
Author: Andy Patterson <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Apr 3 09:01:19 2017 -0400

    gnu: cl-slynk: Explain some naming choices.
    
    * gnu/packages/lisp.scm (sbcl-slynk-boot0): Add comments explaining its
    purpose and the reason its package-name must differ from its name.
---
 gnu/packages/lisp.scm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
index b5d5e19..6b4a177 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
@@ -904,11 +904,15 @@ productive, customizable lisp based systems.")
       (outputs '("out"))
       (arguments '()))))
 
+;; The slynk that users expect to install includes all of slynk's contrib
+;; modules.  Therefore, we build the base module and all contribs first; then
+;; we expose the union of these as `sbcl-slynk'.  The following variable
+;; describes the base module.
 (define sbcl-slynk-boot0
   (let ((revision "1")
         (commit "5706cd45d484a4f25795abe8e643509d31968aa2"))
     (package
-      (name "sbcl-slynk")
+      (name "sbcl-slynk") ; name must refer to the system name for now
       (version (string-append "1.0.0-beta-" revision "." (string-take commit 
7)))
       (source
        (origin