Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> skribis:
> There are two ways to approach this: we change the Guix package names to
> closely match those of the upstream packages, or we pass the complete
> package structure to ‘latest-release’. The latter approach would allow
> the CRAN updater to extract the appropriate name from the tarball URI.
This sounds like a good idea; I don’t think there are any good reasons
for just passing the package name. Could you do that?
If need be, some of the CRAN packages could have a special property:
(package
(name "r-foo")
;; …
(properties `((upstream-name . "Fo0"))))
Ludo’.
