From: "José Miguel Sánchez García" <jmi2k@openmailbox.org>
To: ludo@gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: xmonad: Add missing propagated input.
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 23:28:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5c9bcbbf795944b496874cb000b21d3@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r34ey21f.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2017-01-07 22:48, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ludo’.
I don't understand. xmonad needs ghc at runtime to compile the
configuration
file (because the configuration file is a binary and XMonad is a
library).
Could you explain better?
--
José Miguel Sánchez García
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-07 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-06 16:34 [PATCH] gnu: xmonad: Add missing propagated input José Miguel Sánchez García
2017-01-07 21:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-07 22:28 ` José Miguel Sánchez García [this message]
2017-01-08 10:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-09 16:28 ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2017-01-11 8:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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