From: zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze)
To: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: distinguishing between applications and libraries
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:24:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woh18erd.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19D3778D-BA32-41C9-81C9-60ECB4F3BF7E@vllmrt.net> (Robert Vollmert's message of "Sun, 30 Jun 2019 22:05:58 +0200")
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Hi, Robert and Pierre,
Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> writes:
>> On 30. Jun 2019, at 20:01, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Robert!
>>
>> `guix search` and other user-facing tools ignore non-exported
>> packages.
>>
>> So you can simply use `define` instead of `define-public` to declare
>> a package.
>
> Good point, but that breaks down once a library is used by a package
> outside that module. E.g. consider the various ghc-* packages. Running
> “guix search clock” returns `ghc-clock` and `ocaml-mtime`. The first
> needs to be public since it’s used elsewhere, the second is defined as
> public anyway. Should that change?
I took a shot at packaging bettercap[1] this weekend but decided to
finish it later after realizing how many dependencies would need to be
packaged... Ah, how I long for a 'go' importer.
But since we're having this conversation now, I'd like to ask: does it
make sense to use 'define-public' for dependencies like that? I'd be
adding a lot of 'go-github-com-...' packages like those in
'gnu/packages/syncthing.scm'.
[1]: https://www.bettercap.org/
Regards,
Jakob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-30 17:33 distinguishing between applications and libraries Robert Vollmert
2019-06-30 18:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-30 20:05 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-30 21:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 21:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-01 22:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-02 6:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 0:24 ` Jakob L. Kreuze [this message]
2019-07-02 6:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 15:24 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-07-01 8:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-07-01 11:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-07-01 21:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 13:35 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-07-02 14:33 ` zimoun
2019-07-05 20:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
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