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Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

>> For which package did you have a needed for that?
>
> That's for libnl which has python2 and python3 outputs for python
> extensions. However, we do not currently support cross compilation of
> python extensions.
>
> Adding cross compilation of Python extension would be the right thing to
> do but it's really hard. Nix is also struggling on that, see:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53320.
>
> So I don't have anything better to propose. WDYT?

In (gnu packages =E2=80=A6) there are no users of the =E2=80=9Cpython2=E2=
=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cpython3=E2=80=9D
outputs of libnl.  What about making separate =E2=80=98libnl-python=E2=80=
=99 packages?
Marius, WDYT?

Ludo=E2=80=99.