Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skriver: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis: > >> Quite a few packages depend on (guix build syscalls), starting from >> ‘ant-bootstrap’ (since commit cded3a759356ff66b7df668bcdbdfa0daf96f4c5 >> in 2018) up to GNOME-related packages such as ‘mutter’ (commit >> d1c2fe248a7a326189fb7dcae64a59ece96251ba a few months ago).
It seems the usage of (guix build syscalls) in java.scm and ant-build-system is solely for 'mkdtemp!'. Guile 3.0.6 gained 'mkdtemp', so I suppose we can switch to that? If there are backwards-compatibility concerns it seems possible to modify these procedures to not need to 'mkdtemp' at all. I can prepare a patch along these lines, but not sure if we need to maintain backward compatibility in (gnu packages). > An issue is that GNOME now depends on Java: [...] > There’s probably not much we can do, unless the python-afdko -> icedtea > dependency is optional. This relationship was added in b0ddbb05729e86ce4efb7eac8909317e16d7bed7 and is possible to trade at a purity cost.
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