On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 02:05:28PM -0500, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> With that said, I'm having trouble creating a package: it wants a
> `source' field, but this is a metapackage of sorts, and I didn't intend
> on having any source files; I can generate them using the builder and
> trivial-build-system.  How can I work around this?

You can use (source #f) with the trivial build system for metapackages.

Check out the package definitions of 'gnome' and
'gnome-default-applications' in gnu/packages/gnome.scm for some
examples.