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[bug#56852] [PATCH] gnu: Add exult.
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Maxime Devos |
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[bug#56852] [PATCH] gnu: Add exult. |
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Sun, 31 Jul 2022 16:31:31 +0200 |
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On 31-07-2022 15:26, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via wrote:
I'm not sure we ever reached consensus on preferring Git? I'm pro-git
myself, but if there's consensus we should advertise it more prominently.
I am not aware of a consensus on preferring Git, but using Git had been
noted to be a convenient method for avoiding Autotools binaries (*) and
building from source (*).
However, that's not directly relevant here, as (IIUC your comment
correctly) in this case, the tarball doesn't contain those Autotools
binaries.
Greetings,
Maxime
(*) in the sense used by the GPL and referred to by explanations of '4
freedoms', not in the 'input/output to C compiler / shell interpreter /
...' sense.
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