Subject: Re: [bug#29616] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: guile: Move Readline support to a separate 'guile-readline' package.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:26:22 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> This reduces the closure of Guile from 131 MiB to 116 MiB and removes
> extra readline/ncurses builds from the bootstrap path.
>
> * gnu/packages/guile.scm (guile-2.0)[inputs]: Remove READLINE.
> (make-guile-readline): New procedure.
> (guile-readline): New variable.
> * gnu/system/shadow.scm (default-skeletons): Adjust '.guile' so that it
> gracefully deals with missing (ice-9 readline).

Pushed as 2ba2c98d8aa695cce608313833a36c61b0fb3428 as discussed on IRC.

I’ve also started an evaluation of ‘core-updates’ on Hydra.

Ludo’.