Hello, Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> skribis:
> I'm not sure, we would have to do this with every package that uses > the pysam cython interface. This particular issue is described in the > manual: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/package-Reference.html > > The propagated-inputs section says "For example this is necessary when a > C/C++ library needs headers of another library to compile, or when a > pkg-config file refers to another one via its Requires field.". > > So I think it's a pretty common propagation scenario. See e.g. 618089f9 > for a less convoluted case (C++ library that propagates zlib headers). > > Perhaps a "propagated-build-inputs" functionality would be useful, so > that libraries are only propagated at build time and not to the profile. FWIW, Nixpkgs makes (or made) this distinction, but I could not think of a situation where it would make sense to propagate in one context and not the other. Ludo’.
