From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add xcffib
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:01:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ui6myyw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPP6UOwbkT1vm_tW99Cn_KcyOTb4_yKP4wNV7V6fQtDj0w@mail.gmail.com> (Federico Beffa's message of "Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:17:38 +0100")
Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> + (propagated-inputs
>>> + `(("python-cffi" ,python-cffi)))
>>
>> Please add a comment saying why this is propagated.
>
> The reason is that I want the package to inherit the propagated inputs
> from 'python-cffi' as the latter requires 'python-pycparser' at run
> time. If I don't make python-cffi a propagated-input, but a normal
> input, I need to copy the propagated-inputs from that package and
> (re-) make them propagated-inputs of python-xcffib as well.
Oh, I see. But that’s basically because xcffib does “import cffi” or
something like that, right?
In that case I would just add a comment saying that, unless you really
think it’s obvious (it wasn’t to me, initially.)
> A similar reason applier to python-xcffib in python-cairocffi and to
> pygobject + python-cairocffi + gobject-introspection + pathon-pycairo
> in python-matplotlib.
>
> Is that OK?
Yes. Thanks for explaining!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-17 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-14 19:40 [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add xcffib Federico Beffa
2014-12-15 22:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-16 17:17 ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-17 9:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-12-17 16:57 ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-17 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
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