Siniša Biđin <sin...@bidin.eu> skribis:
> On 2015-08-23 22:47, Eric Bavier wrote:
>> I had to replace "Exec=/etc/X11/Session/xmonad" with "Exec=xmonad"
>> in this xmonad.desktop file in order to launch an xmonad session from
>> Slim. Does this seem right?
>
> Definitely!
[...]
>> Does it make sense to fetch this file
>> from gentoo.org and then modify it? or should we rather just
>> generate it
>> ourselves? What do you/others think?
>
> I had followed ratpoison's example (also using gentoo.org), but it does
> feel dirty. I'm fine with generating it or having it stored in guix's
> repo,
> but couldn't find an example of any other package doing the same.
I think “generating” it (or having it as a string literal) in the source
is preferable.
>>> + (propagated-inputs
>>> + `(("ghc-mtl" ,ghc-mtl)
>>> + ("ghc-utf8-string" ,ghc-utf8-string)
>>> + ("ghc-extensible-exceptions" ,ghc-extensible-exceptions)
>>> + ("ghc-x11" ,ghc-x11)))
>>
>> Do these inputs need to be propagated? I can start up an xmonad
>> session without propagating these inputs. Do they need to be available
>> for xmonad's 'mod-q' (i.e. restarting xmonad/loading a new config)?
>
> I think so, yes. For one, since xmonad is an executable and a library,
> if
> we don't propagate, "ghc-pkg list" will report it as broken.
Makes sense to me.
Could you post an updated patch that addresses these two things?
TIA, and sorry for the delay!
Ludo’.
