Re: Dealing with common collisions in profiles

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> You’ve probably noticed that as soon as there’s a non-negligible number
>> of packages in a profile, there are collisions.  It’s really harmless,
>> but seriously annoying.  Here’s a collection of those I get:
>>
>>   share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
>>   share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
>>   lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
>>   lib/perl5/5.16.1/x86_64-linux/perllocal.pod
>>
>> Federico, I know ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ builds the first 3 items on
>> purpose, but what do you think can be done about them?  At worst we
>> could always change (guix build profiles) to not report collisions for
>> those.
>
> Hey Ludovic,
>
> the first two are indeed generated by 'glib-or-gtk-build-system'. I
> suppose we could add hooks to generate the caches at profile
> generation time and remove the relative phases from the build system.

OK.  Now that we have the icon-theme hook that 宋文武 added, we may be
able to remove the icon-theme.cache generation phase already.

Thanks for the prompt feedback,
Ludo’.