Hi,
Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> For the haskell-build-system I want to offer two outputs by default:
> "out" and "static". However, the build system has no way to override
> the default as (@ (guix packages) package->bag) passes the package’s
> “outputs” value to make-bag.
Ah.
> When the package doesn’t define a value for “outputs”, the default
> '("out") is used. I suggest removing the default value from the
> <package> record, so that the build system defaults have a chance.
Problem is, we don’t want to add an ‘outputs’ line to each and every
package definition. So how can we deal with that?
We could have a special trick where ‘outputs’ defaults to a special
value and ‘package-outputs’ actually asks the build system what the
default outputs are.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
