Re: A plan for parameterized packages

[zimoun]

Hi Pierre,

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 18:44, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> For instance, what if we want to build "all packages without X support"?
> This means that the parameter must traverse all inputs recursively if we
> don't want to drag X indirectly.

It means: add this new ’optionally’ to all the packages supporting X to
be able to turn it off with the ’boolean’ type.  IIUC.


> If I understand your change correctly, the patch is only applying
> parameters to the given package and it's not propagated to the inputs,
> is that correct?

Because of ’package-input-rewriting/spec’, it is applied to all the
graph,  IIUC.

Cheers,
simon