Hello :)

This is a wonderful direction! I am always happy to see boilerplate
evaporate.

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>   • I changed a few importers to emit simplified package inputs.
>     We’ll have to take care of the other importers eventually.

I found one more easy change to make in the importers. I just gave it a
quick smoke test with the Go importer, nothing exhaustive; and I'm not
sure which other importers use it. I've attached the patch below.

>  doc/guix.texi          | 208 ++++++++++++++--

In the manual, you added:

> Each element of these lists is either a package, origin, or other
> ``file-like object'' [...]

How should a file input like this be handled?

  ("some.patch" (search-patch "some.patch"))

If I had to guess, I'd try some gexp like...

  #$(local-file (search-patch "some.patch"))

But I really have no idea!

>  guix/scripts/style.scm | 527 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/style.scm        | 366 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  23 files changed, 1643 insertions(+), 298 deletions(-)

The style script makes up fully half of the patch! Wow.

--
Sarah