From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Guix-devel
<guix-devel-bounces+ericbavier=openmailbox.org@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: propagating inputs in ghc-* packages
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 13:59:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvin2c7h.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <721e3b2f0b9accb7f7efc59722baa77e@openmailbox.org>
Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> writes:
> Hello Ricardo,
>
> On 2016-09-30 04:24, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> I’m in the middle of upgrading our Haskell packages. (Actually, I’m
>> just yak shaving. I need “pandoc-citeproc” for “r-knitr”…)
>>
>> I noticed that upgrading Haskell packages is a pain in the neck because
>> of propagated inputs. It seems that not all packages have fully
>> declared dependencies and just work accidentally because of propagated
>> inputs of a related package. This also makes upgrades more difficult
>> because I can get substitutes from Hydra that depend on older versions
>> of some Haskell packages.
>>
>> It looks like Haskell binaries actually embed references to other
>> Haskell packages, so I’m not sure we actually need to propagate
>> anything
>> at all. Could someone please confirm this?
>
> Commit e17d513381296b (from almost a year ago!) was intended to allow us
> to remove propagated inputs from our ghc-* packages. But I didn't
> follow-up at the time, for reasons I forget now, in actually
> un-propagating those inputs. So if you want to try to do that, it might
> just work.
Thank you! That’s excellent.
Commit 2d47cee25b8bb31d22e6803f1cb3e1679641e14a removes all propagation
from haskell.scm. I rebuilt all packages and tested that things still
work using “ghc-pandoc” both as an executable and as a library.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-02 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-30 9:24 propagating inputs in ghc-* packages Ricardo Wurmus
2016-09-30 14:37 ` Eric Bavier
2016-10-02 11:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-30 21:07 Federico Beffa
2016-10-01 7:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-10-01 9:14 ` Federico Beffa
2016-10-02 4:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-10-02 15:42 ` Federico Beffa
2016-10-01 16:31 ` Leo Famulari
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