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Xinglu Chen |
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[bug#51509] [PATCH] doc: Mention Hg support for 'guix import cran' and some caveats. |
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Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:04:42 +0100 |
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 27 2021, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> * guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Mention support for
>> Mercurial repositories
>> for the CRAN importer, and some caveats with the Git and
>> Mercurial backends.
>> ---
>> Prompted by Ricardo’s comments on the “Accuracy of importers”
>> thread:
>>
>> <https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87mtmq7pes.fsf@disroot.org/T/#mabff98d436895c18f177c4016792ec215f645bbf>
>
> I’d prefer not to mention the limitation (as it’s an
> rstudio-specific modification to DESCRIPTION files) and instead
> work on supporting this extension to the DESCRIPTION file. I
> already have some WIP to address this.
Just to clarify, you are referring to the fact that the ‘--recursive’
option won’t work, not the fact that the ‘hg’ binary needs to be in
$PATH, right? In that case I will send a new reroll removing the
following sentence:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
+One limitation of this is that dependencies that are also hosted on Git
+or Mercurial repositories cannot be imported.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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