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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Texlive and native-inputs
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:43:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141029174303.GA17790@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029171309.GA30858@jocasta.intra>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:13:09PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> You are probably right - to be sure they should be manually checked.  An 
> alternative would be to attempt cross building all the affected packages. 

In the case that native inputs should instead be normal, if I understand
correctly, cross-builds will succeed, but the built package will not be
usable on the target system.

Your suggestion detects cases where normal inputs should be native.

> In the case of perl, python, etc I recall that previous discussions 
> concluded that if they are needed in installed scripts, then it should be up to the 
> user to install them.

No, as I understand it, the patch-shebang is there so that scripts run
without installing additional interpreters.

Andreas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29 17:00 Texlive and native-inputs Andreas Enge
2014-10-29 17:13 ` John Darrington
2014-10-29 17:39   ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-29 17:52     ` John Darrington
2014-10-29 18:51     ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-29 19:55       ` John Darrington
2014-10-29 22:31         ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30  7:53           ` John Darrington
2014-10-30  8:02             ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30  9:24               ` John Darrington
2014-10-29 22:37       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-29 22:29     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-29 17:43   ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2014-10-29 18:03     ` John Darrington

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