Hartmut Goebel writes:
> Hi,
>
> testing the new python build system I’m seeking for some way to build
> *many* packages in order.
>
> Of course I can just run `guix build` with the list of packages to be
> build. But when building all python packages, the list gets rather long
> and does not fit into one call of `guix build` (due to the number of
> arguments xargs passes to the command is restricted). Thus only
> partitions of the packages are build in order.
>
> So I need some way for passing *all* packages to be build to `guix build`.
>
> Any hints?
You could create a meta-package (just a package recipe) that has all
python packages as inputs.
The @code{gnome} package is an example of such a meta-package.
Kind regards,
Roel Janssen
