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From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add wireless-tools.
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> There was a conversation on #guix today about wpa-supplicant possibly
>> needing wireless tools in order to work.  Well, I haven't tested that
>> yet, but I did write a package for the wireless tools.
>
> I think it expects it to be in $PATH.

So I guess we can either try to patch the source code to explicitly
refer to the wireless-tools in the store, or make wireless-tools a
propagated input?

>> From 03ec990504a3f96385587eb1cf4396cab3332617 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:23:58 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add wireless-tools.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (wireless-tools): New variable.
>
> Excellent, please push.

Pushed!

> I think we should add to the installation image, no?

That's a good idea.  Add to %base-packages?

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