Subject: Re: [bug#55606] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add hare.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 16:27:55 +0200

Antero Mejr schreef op zo 26-06-2022 om 10:07 [-0400]:
> If harec/qbe are not installed, hare raises an error saying that it
> cannot find the program, so users will know to install it. So yes it
> should be fine,
> 

TBC: what is this package packaging?

  * the compiler
  * some wrapper around the compiler
  * the standard library and the compiler
  * both

If it packages the compiler, this is not fine.  Guix is a package
manager and distribution, the point of which is to automatically sort
out dependencies.  Leaving it up to the user to sort out the
dependencies then partially defeats the point.

Greetings,
Maxime.