Dear Florian, You report this bug [1] a couple of years ago about unclear explanations of the term propagated-inputs.
[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26170 The explanations of propagated-inputs are here [2] and short words are there [3]. Tey have not been changed since your report. [2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/package-Reference.html#package-Reference [3] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-package You proposed: << 1) that `propagated-inputs` are automatically installed *to the Guix profile* and not just the Store like regular inputs and 2) that C/C++ libraries do not need to be propagated because they can just as well be loaded from the Store *unless* their header files are included by header files of another input package (?) and 3) more examples like the above example for GNOME Evolution (which however I have yet to finish packaging and submit as a patch; maybe dconf is a better example – I presume it is also needed at run time and not just). >> And I agree. I also had issue and I remember asking on IRC explanations. Do you have already a patch? If no, do you plan to prepare one? Thank you in advance for any comments. All the best, simon
