Re: Rewriting inputs and ’arguments’ after patch #43578

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Ludo,

On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 15:46, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Therefore, it is not possible to rewrite this “inputs“ (using the patch
> > [1]), as the dry-run shows:
> >
> > $ guix build emacs-magit --with-input=emacs-no-x=emacs-next -n
>
> AFAICS, it’s working as expected:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix gc --references $(guix build emacs-magit --with-input=emacs-no-x=emacs-next -d --no-grafts) |grep emacs-next
> /gnu/store/8ffjg2961x30171i24pl7j9wafcbli2b-emacs-next-28.0.50.1-0.2ea3466.drv
> $ guix gc --references $(guix build emacs-magit --with-input=emacs-no-x=emacs-next -d --no-grafts) |grep emacs-no-x
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Hum?  I believe what I see... I am sure about my previous example and
your example also speaks by itself...  Therefore, the most probable
seems to be a mistake between my keyboard and my chair. :-)
Sorry for the noise.

> Now, there dependencies in the graph that depend on ‘emacs-minimal’
> instead of ‘emacs-no-x’, so you’d probably also need to replace those.

Yep!  That's the point of 'package-with-emacs-next'.

Cheers,
simon