Re: [PATCH 4/5] gnu: Add avr-toolchain.

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/avr.scm (avr-toolchain): New variable.

I’m guessing that the goal is to allow users to install it in a profile
and build stuff interactively from there, right?

However, profiles currently contain only native packages; patch #2 moves
’search-paths’ to ‘native-search-paths’, which in part is a way to work
around this limitation.

I think a better solution would be to allow users to build profiles that
contain non-native packages.  That way, we could do things like:

  guix environment --target=avr foo

Thoughts?

Until this is possible, we could apply this patch with the added
search-paths/native-search-paths hack (assuming said hack has been
removed from patch #2.)

Does it makes sense?

Thanks,
Ludo’.