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"guix package -i transmission" doesn't install transmission-gtk into profile

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23066: closed ("guix package -i transmission" doesn't install
 transmission-gtk into profile)
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 20:43:02 +0000

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: "guix package -i transmission" doesn't install transmission-gtk
 into profile
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:32:53 +0100

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).

But

$ guix package -i transmission:gui

works. If that's supposed to be the official way, that's not discoverable. 

Also, the desktop file should also be in there, then it's at more consistent.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 23066-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23066: "guix package -i transmission" doesn't install
 transmission-gtk into profile
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:42:30 +0200

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> 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’.

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