Subject: Re: [bug#76376] [PATCH] guix: gexp: canonicalize file paths for import

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:45:02 +0100

Hi Ryan,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I chose ‘readlink*’ because it’s less expensive that
> ‘canonicalize-path’: only one extra syscall (readlink) when ‘file-name’
> is already a regular file.

I went ahead and pushed this change as
24478808756c2787e4cb60d2d0e97f87924d2aa4, but leaving #:recursive? #t
since we still want to be able to import executable files.

Thanks again,
Ludo’.