Subject: Re: bug#23066: "guix package -i transmission" doesn't install transmission-gtk into profile
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:42:30 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> skribis:

> However, it installs share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop into the profile, containing
>
> Exec=transmission-gtk %U
>
> i.e. it won't find it.
>
> transmission-cli works.
>
> I checked gnu/packages/bittorrent.scm , it seems to do some weird special-case for the gui (it puts the gui into a "gui" output and the rest into an "out" output).

Fixed in 07366434240747f9dbbc7c3b606bb07ad9e66502.

> But
>
> $ guix package -i transmission:gui
>
> works. If that's supposed to be the official way, that's not discoverable. 

If you have ideas on how to make outputs more discoverable, let us know!
They’re certainly less “obvious” than package names, but they’re
documented and show by every user interface as Leo wrote.

Thanks,
Ludo’.