Subject: Re: [bug#53829] [PATCH] gnu: Add jj.

From: jgart <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 10:30:45 -0500

On Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:56:02 +0100 Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> wrote:
> jgart schreef op zo 06-02-2022 om 20:20 [-0500]:
> > Thank you for the review! Could you explain the reason for this change? Is
> > there a mailing list thread I can read regarding the practice of using
> > gexps for those variables in #:make-flags. It would be much appreciated.
> 
> It is part of the effort to remove the dependency on magic %global-
> variables and input labels, see the blog post
> <https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/the-big-change/>. That blog post
> doesn't mention %outputs and #$output though.

Thanks for the reference! I'll give it a read.

all best,

jgart