Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > [ Unknown signature status ] > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 05:02:56PM +0000, ng0 wrote: >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-mailmanclient. >> >> * gnu/packages/mail.scm (python-mailmanclient): New variable. > >> +(define-public python2-mailmanclient >> + (let ((base (package-with-python2 >> + (strip-python2-variant python-mailmanclient)))) >> + (package (inherit base) >> + (native-inputs >> + `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)))))) > > This variant will not be used unless there is a python2-variant > properties field in python-mailman, like this: > > (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay python2-mailmanclient)))) > > You can see the recent commit "gnu: Add python-q. (e8c9b01090)" for an > example in context.
Is this necessary for all python2 package variants? I rarely see this. -- ng0