Mathieu Lirzin (2016-08-08 20:53 +0300) wrote: > David Craven <da...@craven.ch> writes: > >> Quoting Ludo from the thread you mentioned: >> >>> (Besides, our package meta-data would probably still refer to the “real” >>> home page of the package, from which it’s trivial to get the unmodified >>> tarball.) >> >> The discussion only applies to 'guix build --source' and I can't see any >> indication from reading the thread that displaying the original source url >> would be in any way problematic. Can you quote something from that >> thread that would indicate otherwise? > > I don't need to quote anything to think that: > > - Providing a user tool to fetch a tarball > - Displaying a direct link to a tarball in our UI
But a user already can look at any package info (including the source URL) using "guix edit" command, so I don't see a reason why "guix package --show" can't display the same info. -- Alex