On Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:59:47 +0100
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> writes:
> >  
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net> writes:  
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>> Yes, we decided to make it a hard requirement.  I'm working on a patch
> >>> to follow through.  
> >
> > I believe I created such a patch.  
> 
> Eric, could you consider merging your patch with Joshua’s?  Making
> Guile-JSON a hard dependency takes more than updating guix.texi, though.

Here's an updated patch.

I think this takes care of everything.  Most of the conditional-loading
logic in modules has been removed/factored/superseded already.

`~Eric