Re: maven build system - new insights

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> writes:

>   * Debian stores the files in a system repository structured like
>     above, see [9]. (Thought this seem not to be done for all packages,
>     |e.g.|||[6] and [7] do not include ||these maven-repo files.)
>   * Debian provides a script "mvn-debian" [8] which seem to tweak maven
>     to use this system repository (by passing
>     -Dmaven.repo.local=$MAVEN_REPO").
>       o This is still a single directory. For guix this would require
>         all inputs to be merged into a single directory :-(

We can do this dynamically with “union-build” from “(guix build
union)”.  This doesn’t need to be considered an obstacle.

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Ricardo