Hi Efraim! Efraim Flashner writes: [...] >> Notice that the version, home page and description >> are repeated across rows. Herein lies my question: >> How would you fetch the details of the inputs(like >> version, home-page, description) etc etc from a >> modifed phase. Do I need to create a closure from >> which I can import the modules like say _(use (gnu >> packages))_. How do I do that if that's the case? >> >> Is it also possible to get the same information in >> a fine grained manner, like say get the >> propagated-inputs instead of getting /all/ inputs? >> > > I think it would be easiest to compute this outside the package > definition and then add it as an input and just plop the precomputed > file into place in a custom phase. Yes! I think this will do it for this case. Would never have thought of that! Thanks! -- Bonface M. K. Chief Emacs Bazu / Rieng ya software sare Mchochezi of: / Twitter: @BonfaceKilz GPG Key: D4F09EB110177E03C28E2FE1F5BBAE1E0392253F