Hi,
宋文武 <iyzs...@outlook.com> skribis:
> I'd like to suggest another plan: Make every ‘output’ become a <package>
> object, so ‘propagated-build-inputs’ doesn’t need to change. Then we’ll
> have something like debian’s source/binary packages [1] and archlinux’s
> base/split packages [2].
>
> Example:
>
> (define-public %gtk+
> (source-package
> (name "gtk+")
> (version "3.24.20")
> (source ...)
> (inputs ...)
> (native-inputs ...)
> (outputs
> `(("out" .
> (binary-package
> (name "gtk+") ; version inherit from source
> (propagated ...) ; per output propagated-inputs here
> (native-search-paths ...)
> (synopsis ...) ; can override package metadata
> (description ...)))
> ("gtk-update-icon-cache" .
> (binary-package
> (name "gtk-update-icon-cache")
> ...))))
> (arguments ...)
> (home-page ...)
> (synopsis ...)
> (descirption ...)
> (license ...)))
>
> (define-public gtk+
> (source-package->binary-package %gtk+ "out"))
>
> (define-public gtk-update-icon-cache
> (source-package->binary-package %gtk+ "gtk-update-icon-cache"))
Interesting. That’d be a major change but if we can find a way forward,
it could be a plan.
Ludo’.
