Re: M-x guix bug

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> I think the right thing would be to make "M-x guix" work by default.
> This can be done simply by adding 'magit-popup' dependency (i.e., by
> adding it to 'propagated-inputs') to our 'guix' package.  But if I
> understood correctly, Ludovic wouldn't like to do it:
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-08/msg00576.html>

There are two separate issues here: one is the ‘guix’ package in Guix,
and another one is the required dependencies for those building from
source.

I’d rather have magit-popup be an optional dependency for someone
building from source.

I wouldn’t mind adding magit-popup as a dependency of the ‘guix’ package
in Guix if magit-popup were a separate package.  Currently, we’d need to
have ‘guix’ depend on ‘magit’, which is pretty big since it depends on
‘git’; not great.  Can magit-popup be made a separate package?

Thanks,
Ludo’.