>mar. 16 sept. 2025 at 11:18, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> writes: > >> SW is supposed to have support to ingest tarballs as far as I remember, >> so there shouldn't be an advantage to one over the other in this regard. > > More precisely, once the package is in Guix proper (and only then), its > tarball metadata is computed with Disarchive¹: I see, but I still don’t see the benefit of tarballs over git repos (except when the tarball includes something else), as this adds an extra layer of complexity. In this case, for example, this added complexity fails to disarchive mupdf, as in several other packages. This is acceptable when tarballs provide a benefit, but otherwise ? C.
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