Re: distinguishing between applications and libraries

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Robert Vollmert <address@hidden> 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 is defined
>> as public anyway. Should that change?
>
> If you need to depend on a non-exported package, you can still
> access it with
>
>   (@@ (gnu packages my-module) my-package)

Nah, it’s not good to do this.  The use of @@ is an anti-pattern.

To completely hide a package from the UI use “hidden-package” or
“(properties ((hidden . #t)))”.

-- 
Ricardo