bug#29653: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add fbcat.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

Ludo',

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 11/12/17 at 17:14:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:
> 
>> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (fbcat): New public variable.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> +    (inputs
>> +     ;; The ‘fbgrab’ wrapper can use one of several PPM-to-PNG converters.  We
>> +     ;; choose netpbm simply because it's the smallest.  It still adds ~94 MiB
>> +     ;; to an otherwise tiny package, so we put ‘fbgrab’ in its own output.
>> +     `(("pnmtopng" ,netpbm)))
>> +    (outputs (list "out" "fbgrab"))
> 
> That’s quite unusual but why not.

It is. IMO a nicer hack than pseudopackages like ‘fbcat-full’.

If we ever start more aggressively auto-splitting outputs and this would
interfere (‘fbcat:fbgrab:debug’), I'll rewrite it through my tears.

> Otherwise LGTM!

Thanks!

Pushed as c1c825844392d2db2414ec0c07dce0d882b6551d (snapscreenshot)
      and 8d8d227bbbe9bd1981bc63704c7f3fe029001f53 (fbcat).

Kind regards,

T G-R