bug#33745: Unnecessary dependencies in Coq

bug#33745: Unnecessary dependencies in Coq

[Dan Frumin]

I believe that the current Coq package [1] pulls in way too many dependencies.

Firstly, as it was already mentioned on Guix-devel [2], the package pulls in texlive and Hevea.
I think those are needed only for building the pdf reference manual.

Secondly, the Coq package depends on lablgtk -- I guess this is needed for building CoqIDE.
Unfortunately, it seems that due to this dependency, the package pulls in all sorts of stuff, including gstreamer and jack!
The dependency graph generated by `guix graph coq` is absolutely huge.

I think it would be beneficial to split the CoqIDE into a separate package for this reason.


[1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm#n628
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00291.html

bug#33745: Unnecessary dependencies in Coq

[Dan Frumin]

Oh, I forgot about another potential issue: right now the Coq package _hardcodes_ the use of Icecat as a default browser:


        (modify-phases %standard-phases
          (replace 'configure
            (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
              (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
                     (mandir (string-append out "/share/man"))
                     (browser "icecat -remote \"OpenURL(%s,new-tab)\""))
                (invoke "./configure"
                        "-prefix" out
                        "-mandir" mandir
                        "-browser" browser
                        "-coqide" "opt")))) ..


Can this be avoided somehow?

bug#33745: (no subject)

[Dan Frumin]

Well it looks like this has been resolved in 8a2cfc7bea37fd5cc5d384ac16d7cd3bd5603ab9

bug#33745: Unnecessary dependencies in Coq

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello Dan,

It would be nice to include the bug title in the subject, so people
looking at the mail don't have to go to the issue tracker to see what
the mail refers to.

Dan Frumin <dfrumin@cs.ru.nl> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. dec. 18., K, 15:54):
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> Well it looks like this has been resolved in 8a2cfc7bea37fd5cc5d384ac16d7cd3bd5603ab9
>
>
>

I have seen two other problems raised on this issue. If they are still
relevant, please retitle this issue to reflect the new state.
You can do that by sending a mail to the control server. You can have
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Best regards,
g_bor