宋文武 via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org> writes:

> Ashvith Shetty <ashvithshetty10@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This patch series moves the source for XFCE applications and plugins 
>> from the pre-generated archive file to their git source for quality 
>> reasons (inconsistency between git and archive builds, 
>> missing files in generated archive, etc).
>
> Hello, could you explain more about those inconsistency and missing
> files?  Build from git is more expensive than tarballs, as it download
> more and need more dependencies, so I think we should avoid it if

I think using git sources makes it easier to test and develop xfce, likes
test pr, and to avoid things like XZ Utils backdoor.

> possible.  We can switch some packages to git if their tarballs is
> lacking functions, also report to upstream to fix them.
>
>
>> This patch series also removes gtk-xfce-engine, a long-abandoned package,
>> which had no dependant packages.
>
> This package is still useful for GTK2 applications, we could update its
> description and move it into 'gtk.scm' to avoid some confusions.
>
>
> Thanks for the contributions!