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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Required packages
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:09:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ip64ds1x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201302071334.04621.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 7 Feb 2013 13:34:04 +0100")

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> > OK.  That’s “user-environment-propagated-inputs”.  We could achieve
>> > that by just changing guix-profile to install propagated inputs. 
>> > That’s probably the right thing to do anyway.
>> Commit 4dede02 implements that.
>
> It apparently works. The propagated input packages are hidden when issuing
>    guix-package --list-installed ,
> which seems a good idea so that the user is not confused by losing several 
> packages at a time when just uninstalling one.

Yes.

> (Well, there is always source for confusion: When I install mpc and compile 
> code needing gmp, everything will work; then I uninstall mpc, and things 
> stop working, although the code does not require mpc.)

Right, but that’s life.  ;-)

I’ll update the manual to document this behavior.

Thanks for testing!

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-07 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-04 18:52 Required packages Andreas Enge
2013-02-04 22:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-04 22:28   ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-05 16:50     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-05 23:09       ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-06 22:09       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-07 12:16         ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-07 12:27           ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-07 16:08             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-07 16:06           ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-07 16:19             ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-07 21:39               ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-07 12:34         ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-07 16:09           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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