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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Graphical GuixSD Installer
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:08:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1_imkbTRYofdP2nBi6vbxRQmOfRir+aL9mP6r65BBZ6fKoWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zijwkrw6.fsf@gnu.org>

> Would it make sense to add a check for it at configure time and
> conditionally compile and install the modules only if 'guile-ncurses' is
> found, like what is done for 'guile-json'?

Doesn't this just complicate things? How about decoupling things
instead? Put the installer in a separate repo and make it a regular
guix package? Or keep it in the same repo and make it a guix package.
Then if someone wants to use guix-install they can say guix package -i
guix-install. I'd suggest the same for guix refresh since people are
against adding a json dependency. We could even go as far as making
each guix command a package. Then we can be a little more galant with
dependencies and if someone only wants to use guix-build and
guix-package they only have to install those.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-16 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-16 11:08 Graphical GuixSD Installer John Darrington
2016-12-16 11:58 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-12-16 12:08   ` David Craven [this message]
2016-12-16 12:17     ` John Darrington
2016-12-16 12:24       ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:33         ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:57           ` David Craven
2016-12-16 16:34   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-16 15:14 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-16 16:13 ` Luis Felipe López Acevedo

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