GNU bug report logs - #53964
[PATCH 0/4] Build nhc98 and ghc@4 with regular dependencies

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 21:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 53964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 53964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#53964] [PATCH 2/4] gnu: gcc: Add 2.95.
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 23:40:35 +0100

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Ludovic Courtès schreef op za 12-02-2022 om 22:45 [+0100]:
> +               (add-before 'configure 'remove-bundled-texinfo
> +                 (lambda _
> +                   ;; Do not build the bundled Texinfo.
> +                   (delete-file-recursively "texinfo")

Unbundling seems more something for a source snippet to me,
since it's ‘cleaning up’ the source code.  ‘(guix)Snipppets versus
Phases’ also says:

The boundary between using an origin snippet versus a build phase to
modify the sources of a package can be elusive.  Origin snippets are
typically used to remove unwanted files such as bundled libraries,
[...]

Greetings,
Maxime.

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