Morning! Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2026-05-29, Sergio Pastor Pérez wrote: >> If this is a real concern, I think this pledge needs to add a special >> exception for high impact packages based on number of dependents. As far >> as I understand, the original proposal was not trying to cover core >> software that start to use LLM assistance. If it were the case that the >> next Python, Rust, Linux, etc versions start to use LLMs in a way that >> this pledge excludes them out of Guix, we should have some measure to >> not even need to discuss that we need this packages. As you say, it's >> not reasonable to drop, for example, Python. So, to avoid any >> subjectivity, we could add a clear numeric hard-line. > > Package dependents is a suprisingly small number for Linux(-libre), so > possibly not the metric you are looking for... I know, this is why I said things not meeting the threshold should be analyzed case-by-case. Having a working kernel is really a dependency of the package, it's just that it's implicit, it won't make sense to run `python` compiled for Linux without the kernel. Nothing prevents us from considering a few metrics though. Best regards, Sergio
