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gnu: commencement: Add commentary regarding grafts.
* gnu/packages/commencement.scm: Add comments that were originally
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Co-Authored-By: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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;;; To avoid circular dependencies, this module should not be imported
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;;; To avoid circular dependencies, this module should not be imported
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;;; directly from anywhere.
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;;; directly from anywhere.
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;;;
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;;;
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;;; Below, we frequently use "inherit" to create modified packages. The
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;;; reason why we use "inherit" instead of "package/inherit" is because we do
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;;; not want these commencement packages to inherit grafts. By definition,
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;;; these packages are not depended on at run time by any of the packages we
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;;; use. Thus it does not make sense to inherit grafts. Furthermore, those
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;;; grafts would often lead to extra overhead for users who would end up
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;;; downloading those "-boot0" packages just to build package replacements
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;;; that are in fact not going to be used.
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;;;
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;;; Code:
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;;; Code:
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(define gnu-make-boot0
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(define gnu-make-boot0
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