Marius Bakke writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> From 893613a3b99c20688cc331d2926dbee28cc143d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Pierre Neidhardt >> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 17:36:17 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add glib-minimal and build glib doc. >> >> glib documentation must be built with gtk-doc which in turn depends on glib, >> so we need to define glib-minimal which does not depend on gtk-doc. >> >> * gnu/packages/glib.scm (glib-minimal): New variable. >> (glib)[source]: Don't use `name'. >> * gnu/packages/avahi.scm: Use glib-minimal when necessary. >> * gnu/packages/cups.scm: Use glib-minimal when necessary. >> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm: Use glib-minimal when necessary. >> * gnu/packages/graphviz.scm: Use glib-minimal when necessary. >> * gnu/packages/gtk.scm: Use glib-minimal when necessary. >> * gnu/packages/inkscape.scm: Use glib-minimal when necessary. >> * gnu/packages/pdf.scm: Use glib-minimal when necessary. > > Please mention all changed variables and inputs here, as we always do. Sure, I didn't because I wasn't sure it was a good idea either :p > That said, I'm not certain this is a good solution. Why do some > packages use glib-minimal and others not? What does "necessary" mean in > this context? > > What about 'hiding' the normal glib package, and expose a > 'glib-with-documentation' variant to end users, similar to how the > 'cmake' package works? cmake-minimal builds the doc already, I don't see a cmake-with-documentation. Did you mean something else? I see a couple packages with the "-documentation" prefix, so we could use "glib-documentation". In a previous email, I explained that I wanted to put the documentation in the "doc" output of glib for 2 reasons: - For consistency with the other packages from the GTK family. - To restore the missing "gtk:doc" output. If I understand correctly, we don't have a provision to deprecate outputs, only packages. I think this is a bug. Now my current patch is admittedly not pretty. If we fix the output deprecation feature, then glib:doc could be forwarded to glib-documentation. And I guess we can live without complete consistency. Thoughts? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/