From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] gnu: python: Add python-ipaddress. Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:57:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20160806175710.73c03ee2@scratchpost.org> References: <20160805183730.19049-2-david@craven.ch> <20160805183730.19049-12-david@craven.ch> <20160805185019.GA20142@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bW3yZ-0001bo-HX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2016 11:57:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bW3yU-00052s-K0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2016 11:57:27 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:52865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bW3yU-00052j-Cp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2016 11:57:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel > 1. Are python-setuptools inputs or native-inputs? It seems to be done > both ways but I guess it doesn't really matter since it's an interpreted > language. Usually native-inputs. The idea is you only need the native-inputs to compile and install the thing and then you can throw the native-inputs away. On the other hand, you need the inputs at runtime of the installed program. You usually don't need *setup*tools after it has setup whatever it was supposed to setup :)