Is there an interface to rewrite / update a field from a series of packages easily?
What I get from the change in python-team last change for the pyproject-build-system is that we need to add python-setuptools or python-wheel to all packages that will complain about it, when trying to build. The errors are very easy to diagnose (a string match in stderr: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools' or error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel' is enough to know what's wrong). The logical thing to do here IMO would be to have a script running, reading stderr when it fails and programmatically replacing where it's needed, since it's done for 2-3k packages basically. I know some work has been done with the guix refresh command to rewrite based on package field location, but I'm not sure it provides a convenient-enough API to simply say in guile "add this package to native-inputs of this package in place". Would love some counselling here, thanks! -- Best regards, Nicolas Graves
