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From: "(" <paren@disroot.org>
To: Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: G-expressions in native-search-paths
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:39:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7jh24un.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b07c668e-2fd3-f438-f8d4-a197037cc2f7@gmail.com>

Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>> There's two issues here:
>> One, you can't use a gexp in FILES.  This will work fine:
>>    (files (list (string-append "share/" name "-" version)))
>
> "name" and "version" come directly from the package definition?
> How do I know where to use gexp's and where not?

Have a read of these:

  Dissecting Guix, Part 1: Derivations
    https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/dissecting-guix-part-1-derivations/

  Dissecting Guix, Part 2: The Store Monad
    https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/dissecting-guix-part-2-the-store-monad/

  Dissecting Guix, Part 3: G-Expressions
    https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/dissecting-guix-part-3-g-expressions/

  -- (


      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-08 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-08  9:01 G-expressions in native-search-paths Reza Housseini
2023-08-08  9:36 ` (
2023-08-08  9:50   ` Reza Housseini
2023-08-08 10:39     ` ( [this message]

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