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From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= <boskovits@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [video repo] when making videos inside container images break
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 08:19:20 +0100
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Hello Bj=C3=B6rn,

Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> ezt =C3=ADrta (=
id=C5=91pont:
2019. m=C3=A1rc. 6., Sze, 7:44):
>
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 20:30:51 +0100
> G=C3=A1bor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Then I looked around the package definition of inkscape, where I found
> > no sign of cairo...
> >
> > I tried adding it to the container, and it seems to be working fine
> > here.
>
> Hi G=C3=A1bor,
>
> thank you for that analysis! Do you think it would make sense to add
> cairo as as inputs or propagated-inputs for inkscape?

I don't know. Most of the functionality seems to be intact when it is missi=
ng.
However it would be nice to at least notify the user about the missing cair=
o,
and that it might break image funtionality. I am not in general very statis=
fied
when a program just picks up its runtime dependencies from whatever
environment it is run... but I feel it's not going to change soon.

Is there any way how we could extend a guix package receipe to list at leas=
t
the well-known optional runtime dependencies, and to describe what funtiona=
lity
do they add to a program, so the user could select what to install alongsid=
e?

>
> Bj=C3=B6rn

Best regards,
g_bor