bug#64090: Cannot compute a file with a G-exp

[Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 at 17:27, "(" <paren@disroot.org> wrote:
> Robby Zambito <contact@robbyzambito.me> writes:
>> Strangely with-extensions doesn't seem to be including the whole
>> dependency tree for me. Should it?
>
> No, I don't think it should. It *would* be possible to traverse the
> package inputs and add all the GUILE-BUILD-SYSTEM-using packages, but
> then you get the problem that not all Guile packages have their
> dependencies specified in the INPUTS list (for some reason, IIRC, you
> need the Guile dependencies to be in both INPUTS *and* NATIVE-INPUTS,
> but some have them only in NATIVE-INPUTS).
>
> The problem there is that if you have a dependency that's only in
> NATIVE-INPUTS, it's difficult to tell if it's actually used by the
> application or by, say, a build script.

Reading the thread and from my understanding, there is no bug.  Closing?

Else, could you provide more information about the bug?

Cheers,
simon