Ahoy Ludo',
On 2016-07-21 18:06, l...@gnu.org wrote:
(inputs `(("somethingsilly" ,glib "bin")))
This "somethingsilly" is just a label that allows you to refer to an
input on the build side, in idioms like:
(assoc-ref inputs "somethingsilly")
=> "/gnu/store/…-glib-42.0-bin"
I remember writing something like
(inputs `(("libuuid" ,util-linux)))
once, to indicate that libuuid really is all we need and that one
could swap out util-linux for another — extremely hypothetical —
libuuid provider.
Was this, in hindsight, somethingsilly? :-)
If so, is there still a reason to keep all this duplication around?
This predates g-expressions, which solve this problem more elegantly.
Interesting! I always assumed[1] gexps were one of the foundations for
Guix since day 0.
Kind regards,
T G-R
[1]: Don't.
