Brice Waegeneire schreef op za 12-02-2022 om 18:21 [+0100]:
> As for the odd make-flags, this is because of the uncanonical Makefile¹ of
> acpilight, It don't build with an empty DESTDIR.
> 
> ¹ https://gitlab.com/wavexx/acpilight/-/blob/master/Makefile

Looks like the problem is caused by 'sysconfdir' not being based
on 'prefix', but that can be resolved by

#~(list (string-append "prefix=" #$output)
	(string-append "sysconfdir=" (string-append #$output "/etc")))

which is not 100% canonical, but it does seems closer to me?

Also, apparently there's a 'python-minimal' package, so you could use
that instead of 'python' to reduce the closure?  Might be counter-
productive though, since most packages seem to use plain 'python'
instead ...

whose closure
would be smaller than