From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
Subject: Re: distinguishing between applications and libraries
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:46:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muhxv36d.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvc6hisk.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> writes:
>
>> Good point, but that breaks down once a library is used by a package
>> outside that module. E.g. consider the various ghc-* packages. Running
>> “guix search clock” returns `ghc-clock` and `ocaml-mtime`. The first
>> needs to be public since it’s used elsewhere, the second is defined
>> as public anyway. Should that change?
>
> If you need to depend on a non-exported package, you can still
> access it with
>
> (@@ (gnu packages my-module) my-package)
Nah, it’s not good to do this. The use of @@ is an anti-pattern.
To completely hide a package from the UI use “hidden-package” or
“(properties ((hidden . #t)))”.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-01 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-30 17:33 distinguishing between applications and libraries Robert Vollmert
2019-06-30 18:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-30 20:05 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-30 21:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 21:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-07-01 22:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-02 6:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 0:24 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-07-02 6:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 15:24 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-07-01 8:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-07-01 11:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 21:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 13:35 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-07-02 14:33 ` zimoun
2019-07-05 20:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
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