From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Keith Osterheld <keitho@openmailbox.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Configuration System's Handling of Missing Packages
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:46:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151224154643.0588d0ca@debian-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1twsa22.fsf@openmailbox.org>
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:08:40 -0800
Keith Osterheld <keitho@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does the configuration system handle references to packages that
> aren't installed? For example, if I add (use-package-modules xfce) to my config file
> but I don't have xfce installed, will guix automatically install it, or
> will it throw errors?
>
> Keith
>
If you don't add (use-package-modules xfce) at the top of your config and you
don't use it in (packages ...) then it won't be added.
On the other hand, if you added had (packages (cons* xfce ...)) but didn't
have (use-package-modules xfce) then it would throw an error.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-24 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-24 5:08 Configuration System's Handling of Missing Packages Keith Osterheld
2015-12-24 13:46 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2015-12-24 14:24 ` 宋文武
2015-12-27 7:36 ` Keith Osterheld
2015-12-27 10:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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