Ludovic Courtès writes: > Gammel Holte <[email protected]> skribis: > >> For example, consider samtools, a package I use daily and that was recently >> committed to Guix: >> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm#n139 >> >> It forces me to install python. In contrast, consider Arch AUR's package: >> >> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/samtools/ > > From looking at the page above, it seems that it would be feasible to > simply move varfilter.py to a different output. That way, users would > be able to install the default output (which doesn’t depend on Python), > or the “python” output. Ricardo, WDYT?
I could try to exclude this from the default output and install just the Python files in a separate "python" output. Is there a way to specify inputs that are required by certain outputs only? Then I could make the new "python" output depend on the Python package as an input.
