On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:10:54 +0000
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:> 
> Maybe an alternative if you want to have a package would be to
> symlink to the source.
The issue is that I don't know how to refer to the source in a
situation like that.

I didn't really find good examples of all that. So far the best
I saw was to either define (source [...]) and reuse it in multiple
packages or to reuse the source of another package with (package-source
<package name>) like in linux.scm.

With the gnu build system, it copies the source in the current
directory, so I've really no idea what to do here. We might also need
to add the source to the inputs or native-inputs or propagated-inputs
somehow so it would not garbage collect it when we install the zim. Is
propagated-inputs the way to go?

Denis.