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Subject: Re: Required packages
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:09:30 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> > OK.  That=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cuser-environment-propagated-inputs=E2=80=
=9D.  We could achieve
>> > that by just changing guix-profile to install propagated inputs.=20
>> > That=E2=80=99s 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 severa=
l=20
> packages at a time when just uninstalling one.

Yes.

> (Well, there is always source for confusion: When I install mpc and compi=
le=20
> code needing gmp, everything will work; then I uninstall mpc, and things=
=20
> stop working, although the code does not require mpc.)

Right, but that=E2=80=99s life.  ;-)

I=E2=80=99ll update the manual to document this behavior.

Thanks for testing!

Ludo=E2=80=99.