On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:42:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > ericbavier@centurylink.net skribis: > > > From: Eric Bavier > > > > * gnu/packages/guile.scm (guile-2.0.13): New variable. > > * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (guix)[arguments]: Adjust 'wrap-program' > > phase to handle "missing" inputs. > > (guix-minimal): New variable. > > What’s the intended use case? Is it to check that Guix compiles against > an old Guile 2.0 and without optional dependencies? > > I wonder whether we should add packages “just” for this, especially > given that 2.0 support is reaching end-of-life and that 2.0.13 is pretty > old. > It might be old but it's still hanging around. Right now iirc Debian stable and Ubuntu 18.04 both ship with Guile-2.0 and with guile packages built against it. If someone wanted to build Guix from source using the various guile libraries there's a fair amount of packaging to do. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted