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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Pierre Neidhardt" <mail@ambrevar.xyz>,
	"Nicolò Balzarotti" <anothersms@gmail.com>,
	"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A plan for parameterized packages
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 19:09:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sg9asd9m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z665xbv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>

Hi Pierre,

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 18:44, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> For instance, what if we want to build "all packages without X support"?
> This means that the parameter must traverse all inputs recursively if we
> don't want to drag X indirectly.

It means: add this new ’optionally’ to all the packages supporting X to
be able to turn it off with the ’boolean’ type.  IIUC.


> If I understand your change correctly, the patch is only applying
> parameters to the given package and it's not propagated to the inputs,
> is that correct?

Because of ’package-input-rewriting/spec’, it is applied to all the
graph,  IIUC.

Cheers,
simon


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-15 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-15 16:33 A plan for parameterized packages Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-15 17:30 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-11-15 17:40   ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-11-15 17:44   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-15 18:09     ` zimoun [this message]
2020-11-16 11:50     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 12:03       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-16 14:05         ` zimoun
2020-11-15 17:37 ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:54   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-15 18:51 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-11-15 20:46 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-11-15 21:16   ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:25     ` Make mutiple packages from outputs (Was: A plan for parameterized packages) 宋文武
2020-11-16 14:53       ` Make mutiple packages from outputs Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 15:10       ` Make mutiple packages from outputs (Was: A plan for parameterized packages) zimoun
2020-11-15 21:24   ` A plan for parameterized packages raingloom
2020-11-16  1:54     ` Ryan Prior
2020-11-16  5:38       ` Clozure size zimoun
2020-11-18  1:30     ` A plan for parameterized packages Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-11-20 11:39       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-20 14:38         ` zimoun
2020-11-20 19:44         ` Christopher Baines
2020-11-16 14:51   ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-17 14:25 Stephen Christie
2020-11-17 15:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-17 18:13   ` Stephen Christie

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