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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: pkg-config disappeared
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:51:54 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Samstag, 15. Juni 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> I just committed this to solve the problem:
>
> -(define %pkg-config
> +;; This is the "primitive" pkg-config package.  People should use `pkg-
> config'
> +;; (see below) rather than `%pkg-config', but we export `%pkg-config' so=
=20
> that
> +;; `fold-packages' finds it.
> +(define-public %pkg-config
>
> This is weird; we should not expect people to install %pkg-config instead=
=20
> of pkg-config. Something else should be modified so that pkg-config is=20
> "visible" by "guix package" under its normal name.

It /is/ visible under its normal name: the package name is different
from the variable name.  What matters for =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 is=
 the =E2=80=98name=E2=80=99
field, not the name of the variable.

BTW, in the meantime it=E2=80=99s always possible to install pkg-config with
something like:

  guix package -e '(@@ (gnu packages pkg-config) %pkg-config)'

which directly refers to the variable.

Ludo=E2=80=99.