Re: [PATCH] gnu: xmonad: Add missing propagated input.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> José Miguel Sánchez García <jmi2k@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>
>> xmonad package needs some love, and this is the first step. ghc should
>> be a
>> propagated input, because it's needed for certain commands such as
>> xmonad --recompile.
>
> Instead of propagating it, would it be possible to hard-code the
> absolute file name of ‘ghc’ inside the xmonad source?
>
> That would avoid pulling in GHC in the user’s profile, which could
> conflict with the user’s GHC.

Could we avoid all of this if we encouraged users to also install
whichever version of GHC they liked best?  Propagation seems bad here
and hard-coding a particular version of GHC in the store also doesn’t
quite seem right to me.

If a user wants to use a different GHC with libraries that are only
available with their particular version of GHC to reconfigure xmonad
then I think it’s best to just leave the decision up to the user.  The
user decides by installing their desired version of GHC into their
profile.

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Ricardo

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