Subject: Re: [bug#39146] [PATCH v2] gnu: icecat: Remove compiler paths from about:buildconfig

From: Jakub Kądziołka <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:37:38 +0100

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 04:23:31PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi Danny,
> 
> Thanks for checking in with me on this.
> 
> > since we have to touch Rust anyway, the icecat patch from Jakub below could also
> > go to guix staging.
> > 
> > Is the patch OK?  Should we do it?
> 
> Instead of removing the build configuration information entirely, how
> about transforming the store paths in some way that makes them invisible
> to the reference scanner without losing information?  For example,
> inserting a period (.) somewhere within the store hash would be
> sufficient and fairly obvious.
> 
> What do you think?
It wasn't clear to me how to transform the paths after they get
substituted, but nckx has suggested a better approach:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/39146

Regards,
Jakub Kądziołka