From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
To: Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Design decision behind inputs/native-inputs/propagated-inputs
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:57:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A17055.5090005@uq.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160121231935.GA26221@stebalien.com>
Hi,
On 22/01/16 09:19, Steven Allen wrote:
> Just to be clear, given:
>
> (package
> (name "foo")
> (inputs `(("bar", bar)))
> (native-inputs `(("baz", baz)))
> ...
> )
>
> If I install "foo", "foo" will **always** be able to use the files in "bar"
> but will not (may not?) be able to use the files in "baz"?
That's true for some definition of 'use', yes. If you add foo to your
profile and it is downloaded from a substitute (as opposed to being
built from source on your machine), then you'll have to download bar as
well, but not necessarily baz.
> Sorry about the confusion...
Not at all.
ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-21 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-21 4:49 Design decision behind inputs/native-inputs/propagated-inputs Steven Allen
2016-01-21 9:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-21 16:08 ` Steven Allen
2016-01-21 21:42 ` Ben Woodcroft
[not found] ` <20160121221340.GA6151@stebalien.com>
[not found] ` <56A15FC4.2060501@uq.edu.au>
2016-01-21 23:19 ` Steven Allen
2016-01-21 23:57 ` Ben Woodcroft [this message]
2016-01-22 1:30 ` Steven Allen
2016-01-23 16:59 ` Steven Allen
2016-01-23 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-23 22:55 ` Steven Allen
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