gnu: Add comments to the bottom of a few package modules.

This will hopefully discourage patches which add new packages to the bottom of
files, as this increases the likelihood of conflicts when applying patches.

If there are more specific ways that packages should be arranged in specific
modules, this message can be updated accordingly.

* gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm: Add comment discouraging adding packages to
the bottom of the file.
* gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/cran.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/crates-io.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/golang.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/java.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/ocaml.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/perl.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/python-science.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/ruby.scm: ditto.
* gnu/packages/tex.scm: ditto.

17 files changed, 101 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm b/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm
index 791c8b5476..5c377a7d59 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm
@@ -17036,3 +17036,9 @@ reproducibility.")
      "Phyloseq provides a set of classes and tools to facilitate the import,
 storage, analysis, and graphical display of microbiome census data.")
     (license license:agpl3)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index efc8514a63..8700f42c5d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -16721,3 +16721,9 @@ handling.")))
     (description
      "Bíogo is a bioinformatics library for the Go language.")
     (license license:bsd-3)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
index 81fa0f7b5b..3d90dc2caa 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
@@ -34569,3 +34569,9 @@ calculate a dimension's unknown value from other dimensions' measurements.")
      "Tools for integrating spatially-misaligned GIS datasets.  Part of the
 Sub-National Geospatial Data Archive System.")
     (license license:gpl2)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
index 02f7bc7d4d..e95055dad7 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
@@ -75105,3 +75105,9 @@ way to convert simple shell commands to windows batch commands.")
     (description
      "This crate uses bindgen to generate the raw FFI definitions for PAM. For a rustified API consider using pam.")
     (license (list license:expat license:asl2.0))))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
index 508418ee92..1a9c946223 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
@@ -32570,3 +32570,9 @@ a way to pop up a frame at point.  Vertico-posframe is an Emacs package and
 a Vertico extension which provides a way to pop up a frame at point to show
 a vertical completion UI.")
     (license license:gpl3+)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/golang.scm b/gnu/packages/golang.scm
index 8e76534d34..610e18310d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/golang.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/golang.scm
@@ -9992,3 +9992,9 @@ implementation.")
     (description "This package provides basic image processing functions
 (resize, rotate, crop, brightness/contrast adjustments, etc.).")
     (license license:expat)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm
index ca251641d5..1affb90027 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm
@@ -5200,3 +5200,9 @@ capability security designs.  Goblins is a general toolkit, and also
 the core layer of Spritely's work to support healthy distributed
 networked communities.")
     (license license:asl2.0)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm
index a01248f355..43eb448c7e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm
@@ -16123,3 +16123,8 @@ data Dec a
      "This package provides Type-level booleans.")
     (license license:bsd-3)))
 
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/java.scm b/gnu/packages/java.scm
index 73898d120c..bb172f3bee 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/java.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/java.scm
@@ -14323,3 +14323,9 @@ The following TLA+ tools are available in this distribution:
 @item The PlusCal translator.
 @end itemize")
       (license license:expat))))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
index 6aa185486b..28c759a5c0 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/julia-xyz.scm
@@ -5878,3 +5878,9 @@ Zygote, without depending on Zygote itself.")
 differentiation (AD) in Julia, and is the next-generation AD system for the
 Flux differentiable programming framework.")
     (license license:expat)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm
index 4fd3da31a4..2ce5438b71 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm
@@ -23897,3 +23897,9 @@ descent parsers without funky syntax or impenetrable macrology.")
 
 (define-public ecl-smug
   (sbcl-package->ecl-package sbcl-smug))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
index 2fd519ca41..89dcb1d60a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
@@ -8774,3 +8774,9 @@ bibliography files in BibTeX format, a bibliography in HTML format.")
      "The OCaml guile library provides high-level OCaml bindings to GNU Guile
 3.0, supporting easy interop between OCaml and GNU Guile Scheme.")
     (license license:gpl3+)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
index 42c7d18c9d..64868607dc 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
@@ -11901,3 +11901,9 @@ It also allows manipulating ancillary data or so-called control
 information (cmsghdr).  This ancillary data may be used for file descriptor
 passing, IPv6 operations, and a host of implemenation-specific extensions.")
     (license license:perl-license)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-science.scm b/gnu/packages/python-science.scm
index 331b16df8f..d571dd8406 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python-science.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python-science.scm
@@ -1478,3 +1478,9 @@ Dask, PyTorch, Tensorflow, CuPy, Sparse, Theano, JAX, and Autograd arrays as
 well as potentially any library which conforms to a standard API. See the
 documentation for more information.")
     (license license:expat)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
index 86fed87f26..180464e157 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
@@ -30791,3 +30791,9 @@ functions
 @item Type annotations to help ensure correct usage
 @end itemize")
     (license license:bsd-3)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
index 94c3bfeb6f..c7d820e9e9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
@@ -13766,3 +13766,9 @@ can also be used as a Ruby library or as a web application, though the later
 has not yet been packaged for Guix.")
     (license license:bsd-2)
     (properties `((upstream-name . "anystyle-cli")))))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/tex.scm b/gnu/packages/tex.scm
index ae8bf43161..5e0228f2ab 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/tex.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/tex.scm
@@ -11685,3 +11685,9 @@ syllable.  The package itself does not support UTF-8 input in ordinary
 interest.  Since most such counters are simply incremented when they are
 changed, the recorded value will usually be the maximum value.")
     (license license:lppl1.3c+)))
+
+;;;
+;;; Avoid adding new packages to the end of this file. To reduce the chances
+;;; of a merge conflict, place them above by existing packages with similar
+;;; functionality or similar names.
+;;;