Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Augeas.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>>> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
>>> +    ;; Marked as "required" in augeas.pc
>>> +    (propagated-inputs
>>> +     `(("libxml2" ,libxml2)))

I find it clearer to put the comment right below ‘propagated-inputs’.

>> Is there really no way to avoid this?
>
> I don’t know.

The problem is that I don’t think it works to put an absolute file name
in the ‘Requires’ field of a ‘.pc’ file, so I don’t think we can avoid
it unfortunately.

However, since Augeas is a library, the propagated input is acceptable:
in practice, people probably won’t have it in their main environment,
but rather in a ‘guix environment’ thing, or in a dedicated development
profile.

Ludo’.