Re: Where is gtk-update-icon-cache ... ?

[Yoshinori Arai <kumagusu08@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 03:58:40PM +0100, swedebugia wrote:
> On 2019-01-11 09:51, 荒井吉則 wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 06:00:05AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >  > If you want to install gtk-update-icon-cache you need to install the
> >  > “gtk+:bin” package to a profile, e.g. by doing
> >  >
> >  >     guix package -i gtk+:bin
> >  >
> > 
> > OK, I will do it.
> > However I think it is kind to ask will you install bin when someone
> > install like gtk+ or glibc with guix package -i <some library package>.
> 
> Your idea seems user friendly, but to implement it we would have to find a
> way to distinguish library-packages from other packages. I'm not sure how to
> programmatically distinguish if a package has a bin-output.
> 
> Right now you have to investigate the different outputs yourself e.g. by
> running:
> 
> $ guix package --show=gtk+
> 
> which lists the different outputs.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers Swedebugia

Hello,

I don't know is it not sure how to programmatically distinguish.
However, if library-packages would separete into library-only and bin
package, user can choose which one as debian dev package. I think.