On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:29:41 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
> Alex Sassmannshausen <a...@pompo.co> writes: > > > Looking at this, there seems to be a larger problem in perl.scm with > > this. Many packages simply specify inputs, and I believe the same > > reasoning that applied to my package her will apply to those too. > > > > Binaries are not affected by this problem, as we generally use > > wrapping scripts to explicitly include all dependencies in PERL5LIB. > > > > Am I right in thinking that we should be systematically changing > > inputs to propagated-inputs in the whole of perl.scm? > > Yes, I think this should be done. We have the same problem with some > Python packages. Though, it's not quite as simple as propagate-all-inputs. Some care must be taken, since many inputs are for tests only. While some packages have test-only inputs in native-inputs, this is not universally true. `~Eric
