Re: [PATCH] gnu: whois: Move mkpasswd to its own output.

[Ludovic Courtès]

ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Mkpasswd has nothing to do with whois, and upstream says so. I
>>> think we should be able to install whois and just have whois, not
>>> some random "historical bundled" binary in addition to whois.
>>> I'm just stating the sizes as in comparison to the other outputs
>>> they sometimes matter even if its just KiB.
>>>
>>> Like I've written in the opening email, another approach could be
>>> to simply delete mkpasswd from the output build and create an
>>> 'mkpasswd' package (inheriting from whois) which does the same
>>> for whois.
>>
>> I might be overlooking something, but my gut reaction is that (1) it’s
>> not “bundling” in that we don’t have any other package providing
>> mkpasswd, and (2) it’s up to upstream to decide whether or not to
>> distribute mkpasswd.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Ludo’.
>>
> And upstreams decision is not to do it (on making it a choice not
> to build it or to move it to another tarball):
>
> "No, but thank you for asking."

So upstream’s decision is to keep mkpasswd in whois?

> So we stick with the default case? I'm still in favor for making
> it separate guix packages.

I’m still in favor of sticking to upstream’s decision, whatever that
is.  But honestly, I fail to see why this is a big deal.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.