Philip McGrath

> How far could we get by allowing small computations in the value of the attribute? … We might have: > > ```racket > (q ((draw "text") > (name "footer")...

One thing I wondered is whether Fedora's policy change applies only to packages where `CC0-1.0` is the primary license of the package as a whole, or also to packages under...

> A more useful question from me would have been: is a `.rackboot` section present in the executable that crashes? My memory is hazy on this point, but I think...

The issue is specifically that the tool which strips the debug info from ELF files to form separate `-debuginfo` subpackages needs to be instructed not to strip away the custom...

Re @davexunit: > I talked to [@wingo](https://github.com/wingo) about this briefly. He challenged me to think of a time when I resumed a continuation more than once in a real world...

I don't know if this is your problem, but I've seen this symptom when this assumption: https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/bf768e10932bedbfb93afcd4f8abd1c0e4c63525/racket/collects/pkg/private/lock.rkt#L42-L51 does not hold. I was in a state where: 1. The directory existed;...

> Removing the r/o flag resolves my problem, but is this something install should handle better? I'm quite comfortable crawling around and finding hidden directories, but I'm not sure everyone...

When packaging "minimal Racket" for Guix, I removed the `share/racket/pkgs` directory as a workaround ([lines 232–244 of gnu/packages/racket.scm](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/racket.scm?id=34cf1f451e30727b8af1de8c5e033852664e30a1#n232)): ```scheme (add-after 'install 'remove-pkgs-directory ;; If the configured pkgs-dir exists, "pkgs.rktd" does...

@mflatt That sounds right. I'm slightly hesitant, just because I'm not sure I've paged back in all of the various possible states this can get into, but accounting for the...

(@mflatt I think this is what you said you also saw/realized, but, to be sure, since I'm still refreshing my memory:) If I download the https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.2/installers/racket-minimal-8.2-src.tgz tarball on Unix/Linux, unpack,...