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[PATCH] Add lure.

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: 38805 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#38805] [PATCH] Add lure.
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 21:39:56 +0200

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 05:31:48PM +0100, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> 
> > The following patch adds Lure of the Temptress game, in several
> > languages. 
> >
> > There is a single game, but the files cannot live in the same directory,
> > and you probably never want to use more than one language. Therefore,
> > I abused the outputs mechanism: each output is a language, "out" being
> > the default English language.
> >
> > According to #guix, this is not a good way to use outputs, but I don't
> > know how to do better. So, here is the patch!
> 
> Gentle ping. 
> 
> I would appreciate some feedback, notably about the somewhat exotic use
> of outputs (some packages are also creative with outputs).

I think for people looking for the game in other languages finding it as
game-lang would be easier than as a separate output. So my vote would be
different packages, assumably all inheriting from the english one.

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