Subject: Re: bug#26373: [PATCH 2/6] import cran: Add predicate for Bioconductor experiment packages.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:34:51 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:
>>
>>> * guix/import/cran.scm (bioconductor-experiment-package?): New variable.
>>
>> It seems to be a private and unused procedure.  Is it really needed?
>> :-)
>
> Oh, it wasn’t supposed to be private.  There are three kinds of
> bioconductor packages: the normal ones, experiment packages, and
> annotation packages.
>
> The latter two cannot be updated the usual way, so they are excluded
> from “bioconductor-package?”, but I thought that one may still want to
> be able to distinguish between them.  It’s true, though, that there’s
> nothing that can use “bioconductor-experiment-package?” yet, but it’s
> possible to add an updater for just the experiment packages.  (They use
> a different SVN repository.)

OK, I see.  Make sure to export it, then!  :-)

Thanks for the explanation,
Ludo’.