Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Augeas.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
>>>> +    ;; Marked as "required" in augeas.pc
>>>> +    (propagated-inputs
>>>> +     `(("libxml2" ,libxml2)))
>
> I find it clearer to put the comment right below ‘propagated-inputs’.
>
>>> Is there really no way to avoid this?
>>
>> I don’t know.
>
> The problem is that I don’t think it works to put an absolute file name
> in the ‘Requires’ field of a ‘.pc’ file, so I don’t think we can avoid
> it unfortunately.
>
> However, since Augeas is a library, the propagated input is acceptable:
> in practice, people probably won’t have it in their main environment,
> but rather in a ‘guix environment’ thing, or in a dedicated development
> profile.

Augeas is both a library and a command line tool.  For a command line
tool propagation is ugly and I’d like to avoid it.

What should I best do in this case?

~~ Ricardo