Hi,
Robert Vollmert skribis:
> - `guix search` would ignore library packages by default
I don’t think that’s a viable approach: sometimes people search for
libraries, too.
Now ‘guix search’ could rates leaves of the graph higher, though I’m not
sure if it should be the default.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> A good reason would be that the package *cannot* be used for anything
> else (e.g. when it’s a custom variant of a library that would
> otherwise be bundled but we decided to build it separately).
Ah, that's good to know for something else I'm packaging. :)
> We hid “gc
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 15:35, Robert Vollmert wrote:
> > On 1. Jul 2019, at 23:48, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> - `guix search` would ignore library packages by default
> >
> > I think it’s valid for users to want to install libraries. For Python,
> > for example, installing modules that don’t
> On 1. Jul 2019, at 23:48, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> - `guix search` would ignore library packages by default
>
> I think it’s valid for users to want to install libraries. For Python,
> for example, installing modules that don’t provide any executables
> appears to be the norm.
The idea wou
Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
>> To completely hide a package from the UI use “hidden-package” or
>> “(properties ((hidden . #t)))”.
>
> This is great, didn't know that! Is it in the manual?
Sadly, there are a lot of Guix API things missing from the manual. I’d
love to
Hi Jakob,
> But since we're having this conversation now, I'd like to ask: does it
> make sense to use 'define-public' for dependencies like that? I'd be
> adding a lot of 'go-github-com-...' packages like those in
> 'gnu/packages/syncthing.scm'.
I’d use define-public for all packages unless th
Hi, Robert and Pierre,
Robert Vollmert writes:
>> On 30. Jun 2019, at 20:01, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
>>
>> Hi Robert!
>>
>> `guix search` and other user-facing tools ignore non-exported
>> packages.
>>
>> So you can simply use `define` instead of `define-public` to declare
>> a package.
>
>
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> To completely hide a package from the UI use “hidden-package” or
> “(properties ((hidden . #t)))”.
This is great, didn't know that! Is it in the manual?
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Hi Robert,
> Has it been considered to track applications and libraries
> separately? Along the lines of:
>
> - package definitions could have a `type` field, or a `library`
> flag or similar
This dichotomy falls apart with many bioinformatics packages that
provide both libraries and executab
Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> Robert Vollmert writes:
>
>> Good point, but that breaks down once a library is used by a package
>> outside that module. E.g. consider the various ghc-* packages. Running
>> “guix search clock” returns `ghc-clock` and `ocaml-mtime`. The first
>> needs to be public s
> In fact, why not *use* Debian's command-not-found handler.
I like it!
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Hi,
On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:33:55 +0200
Robert Vollmert wrote:
> Has it been considered to track applications and libraries
> separately? Along the lines of:
>
> - package definitions could have a `type` field, or a `library`
> flag or similar
There are also a lot of packages which provide bo
Robert Vollmert writes:
> Good point, but that breaks down once a library is used by a package
> outside that module. E.g. consider the various ghc-* packages. Running
> “guix search clock” returns `ghc-clock` and `ocaml-mtime`. The first
> needs to be public since it’s used elsewhere, the second
> On 30. Jun 2019, at 20:01, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
>
> Hi Robert!
>
> `guix search` and other user-facing tools ignore non-exported packages.
>
> So you can simply use `define` instead of `define-public` to declare a
> package.
Good point, but that breaks down once a library is used by a
Hi Robert!
`guix search` and other user-facing tools ignore non-exported packages.
So you can simply use `define` instead of `define-public` to declare a
package.
For instance:
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(define my-package
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