From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:20:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140129082015.GA24787@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha8peqml.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:11:14AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> Ok. Andraes' and Ludo's explanations convince me. However I'm skeptical that
> the Octave devs would be quite so convinced. And removing the propagates-inputs
> will mean patching to the Octave source and I don't know how difficult this will be.
The patch that would be great upstream is:
AC_PATH_PROG([MAKEINFO], [makeinfo])
AC_SUBST([MAKEINFO])
and then use ???@MAKEINFO@??? wherever ???makeinfo??? is expected in the source
(similarly for ???less???, etc.)
Ludo???.
Having thought about this some more, looked to see what is currently in the
octave source and "discussed" the issue on #octave I think now the best solution
is to simply remove all the propagated-inputs from the package (and leave inputs
and native-inputs as they are). Rationale:
* Octave "works" without all these programs (albeit in a rather featureless
fashion). If a user wants to add the feature, then she just needs to
guix package -i <foo>.
* It seems to have been a deliberate decision by the octave developers to rely
on $PATH to select the appropriate version of these external programs.
* Changing this behaviour would involve alterations to the octave source touching
many files, and I think upstream would be unlikely to cooperate with us.
The disadvantage of this approach is, that a guix user who installs octave, but
not the other packages, gets only a barely functional version. Perhaps we need
a (recommended-inputs `(...)) like in debian.
Comments?
J'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-29 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-23 20:07 [PATCH 1/3] gnu: libxft: Propagate input John Darrington
2014-01-23 20:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] gnu: fltk: New module John Darrington
2014-01-24 16:07 ` Thompson, David
2014-01-25 7:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] " John Darrington
2014-01-25 8:27 ` (unknown), John Darrington
2014-01-25 8:27 ` [PATCH] gnu: fltk: New module John Darrington
2014-01-25 15:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-23 20:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies John Darrington
2014-01-25 15:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-25 16:14 ` John Darrington
2014-01-25 16:42 ` Andreas Enge
2014-01-25 17:04 ` John Darrington
2014-01-25 20:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-26 7:38 ` John Darrington
2014-01-26 9:09 ` (unknown), John Darrington
2014-01-26 9:09 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add gnuplot John Darrington
2014-01-26 20:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-26 18:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies Andreas Enge
2014-01-26 19:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 8:30 ` John Darrington
2014-01-27 9:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-29 8:20 ` John Darrington [this message]
2014-01-29 21:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 9:04 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-01-27 9:53 ` Installing a C tool chain Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 10:32 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-02-04 6:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-04-05 20:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-14 17:54 ` Andreas Enge
2014-04-14 19:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-14 19:43 ` Andreas Enge
2014-04-14 21:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-14 21:57 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2014-01-24 13:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] gnu: libxft: Propagate input Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-25 7:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] " John Darrington
2014-01-25 15:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-25 15:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
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