Re: this-package-input vs. propagated-inputs in package definition

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 at 11:27, Andy Tai <a...@atai.org> wrote:

> I have updated the definition of package ddd which has libxft as
> input. Libxft in turn has freefont as propagated-input.

What do you mean by ’freefont’?  libxft reads:

    (propagated-inputs
     ;; xft.pc refers to all these.
     (list libxrender
           freetype
           fontconfig))


Cheers,
simon