Hi! zimoun <[email protected]> skribis:
> This command lists the dependencies of the "guix" package. > > guix package --show=guix | recsel -p dependencies > > Then this command fails: > guix package --show=autoconf-wrapper > > It is expected because the "wrapper" is not a "real" package and it is > not exposed. Only the package "autoconf" is. > > > Therefore, you cannot chain: > > guix package -i `guix package --show=guix | recsel -P dependencies` > > guix package: error: autoconf-wrapper: package not found for version 2.69 Yes, but it’s a fact of life IMO. :-) > Moreover, the name in "native-inputs" is not consistent with the > declared name. I mean: > guix repl >> ,use(guix) >> ,use(gnu packages package-management) >> (package-native-inputs guix) >> (map car (package-native-inputs guix)) This gives you the list of labels for each input. The labels do _not_ have to match package names; they can be anything, there can even be duplicates, etc. You should not rely on them at all to identify packages. Eventually, once build systems use gexp, I hope we can even get rid of these labels. Guix 2.0. Does that make sense? Thanks, Ludo’.
