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From: mhw@netris.org
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 18247@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18247: Cyclic dependencies in (gnu package *) modules
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:28:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761hybd39.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4uupogm.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:59:37 -0400")

I wrote:
> Unfortunately, it seems to me that the most common kinds of cross-module
> references between (gnu packages *) modules are references in 'inputs'
> or 'native-inputs' fields, and those need to be looked up at module load
> time, right?

I see now that 'inputs' and 'native-inputs' are "thunked" fields, so the
bindings don't have to be looked up until those fields are accessed at
run time.

     Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11 20:05 bug#18247: Cyclic dependencies in (gnu package *) modules mhw
2014-08-11 20:49 ` mhw
2014-08-11 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-11 23:59   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-08-12  3:28     ` mhw [this message]
2014-08-12  7:31       ` mhw
2014-08-12 13:54         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-12 20:53           ` Eric Bavier
2014-08-13 18:55             ` Mark H Weaver
2014-08-13 22:09             ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-16  6:00               ` Eric Bavier
2014-08-16  9:11                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-28  9:41           ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-12 11:05     ` Ludovic Courtès

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