bug#23066: "guix package -i transmission" doesn't install transmission-gtk into profile

bug#23066: "guix package -i transmission" doesn't install transmission-gtk into profile

[Danny Milosavljevic]

However, it installs share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop into the profile, containing

Exec=transmission-gtk %U

i.e. it won't find it.

transmission-cli works.

I checked gnu/packages/bittorrent.scm , it seems to do some weird special-case for the gui (it puts the gui into a "gui" output and the rest into an "out" output).

But

$ guix package -i transmission:gui

works. If that's supposed to be the official way, that's not discoverable. 

Also, the desktop file should also be in there, then it's at more consistent.

bug#23066: "guix package -i transmission" doesn't install transmission-gtk into profile

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 07:32:53PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> However, it installs share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop into the profile, containing
> 
> Exec=transmission-gtk %U
> 
> i.e. it won't find it.
> 
> transmission-cli works.
> 
> I checked gnu/packages/bittorrent.scm , it seems to do some weird special-case for the gui (it puts the gui into a "gui" output and the rest into an "out" output).
> 
> But
> 
> $ guix package -i transmission:gui
> 
> works. If that's supposed to be the official way, that's not discoverable. 

If you do `guix package --show=transmission`, the following line appears
in the output:
outputs: out gui

So, it is discoverable, although it doesn't jump out at you.  I think
that when we have a graphical package management tool, the multiple
outputs should be made more apparent to our users.

> Also, the desktop file should also be in there, then it's at more consistent.

Can you look at how some other packages do this [0], and send a patch
fixing this aspect of the transmission package to guix-devel@gnu.org?

[0] If you don't know where to start, just try using `grep` for the
relevant terms in 'gnu/packages'. I don't really know much about this
subject, so sorry that I can't give more specific advice.

bug#23066: "guix package -i transmission" doesn't install transmission-gtk into profile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> However, it installs share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop into the profile, containing
>
> Exec=transmission-gtk %U
>
> i.e. it won't find it.
>
> transmission-cli works.
>
> I checked gnu/packages/bittorrent.scm , it seems to do some weird special-case for the gui (it puts the gui into a "gui" output and the rest into an "out" output).

Fixed in 07366434240747f9dbbc7c3b606bb07ad9e66502.

> But
>
> $ guix package -i transmission:gui
>
> works. If that's supposed to be the official way, that's not discoverable. 

If you have ideas on how to make outputs more discoverable, let us know!
They’re certainly less “obvious” than package names, but they’re
documented and show by every user interface as Leo wrote.

Thanks,
Ludo’.