Re: Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Leo,

Leo Famulari wrote on 21/01/18 at 23:37:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 04:47:14PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>> Danny,
>>
>> Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 20/01/18 at 11:40:
>>> We should change that in core-updates-next, if possible.
>>>  
>>> I think that native-inputs shouldn't end up in the final binary as a
>>> reference [...]
>> This has been discussed before, and I agree. (I started a branch to do
>> so but it breaks quite a few things and it got tedious. I think I'm
>> ready for more now.)

[...]

> I'd rather we do it somewhere else than core-updates.
> 
> It's already very difficult to complete the core-updates cycles. We
> should limit core-updates to updates of core packages, and handle big
> changes to Guix itself on their own branches.

Er, yeah. Definitely.

Unfortunate quoting on my part if it seemed like I was implying
otherwise. This is the right thing to do, but doing it on core-updates
is going to hurt rather than help anyone.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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