l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis: > >> It might be nice to have build-only propagated inputs. On the other >> hand, someone installing libxrandr in their profile will expect >> pkg-config on libxrandr to work without errors. More generally, they >> will expect any build operation to work; i.e. a user might want to use >> Guix-installed libraries for Guix-external development, and build-only >> propagated inputs would mean annoying such users because they now have >> to install them manually. Unless we provide a special "install for >> development" operation that is. But the complexity grows. :-) > > Heh. Another option would be to have per-output propagated inputs. > That is, if a package has “out” and “lib” outputs, you’d want the > propagated inputs to apply only to “lib” since this is where the .pc is. > (This has been in ‘TODO’ for a couple of years.) > > Thoughts?
Sounds like an obvious feature to add, and in my (limited) experience these library deps are the most common propagated inputs... Taylan
