Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add epic5.

[ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com>]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:44:11PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>> From: ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
>> 
>> * gnu/packages/irc.scm (epic5): New variable.
>
> Thanks for the updated patch.
>
> Sorry I didn't notice this before...
>
>> +    (inputs
>> +     `(("openssl" ,openssl)
>> +       ("ncurses" ,ncurses)
>> +       ("libarchive" ,libarchive) ; CHANGELOG: "Support for loading zip files"
>> +       ("perl" ,perl)
>> +       ("tcl" ,tcl)
>> +       ("ruby" ,ruby)
>> +       ("gdbm" ,gdbm)))
>
> Using `guix gc --references $(./pre-inst-env guix build epic5)`, I
> noticed that there is no reference to gdbm.
>
> So, if you install this epic5 package and then do `guix gc`, you will
> lose gdbm and I assume that epic5 will stop working.
>
> We need to figure out a way to make sure epic5 keeps that reference.


Hm. Maybe there's an config option I can pass, if you have time to look
at it go ahead, I'll be slow and update it some time this month.
I keep poking at system services and trying to finish those, easier said
than done in some cases it turns out.

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