Subject: [bug#31462] [PATCH] profiles: Add hook to generate "gschemas.compiled".

From: [email-masked] (宋文武)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 19:55:08 +0800

[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello!
>
> Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> * guix/profiles.scm (glib-schemas): New procedure.
>> (%default-profile-hooks): Add it.
>
> [...]
>
>> +  (mlet %store-monad ((%glib (manifest-lookup-package manifest "glib"))
>> +                      ;; XXX: Can't use glib-compile-schemas corresponding
>> +                      ;; to the glib referenced by 'manifest'.  Because
>> +                      ;; '%glib' can be either a package or store path, and
>> +                      ;; there's no way to get the "bin" output for the later.
>> +                      (glib-compile-schemas
>> +                       -> #~(string-append #+glib:bin
>> +                                           "/bin/glib-compile-schemas")))
>
> Oh right, too bad.
>
> 宋文武, any comments, since you wrote the existing hooks in that area?
>

Well, I think this situation is not changed.  Our profile hooks
currently use latest version of zlib, gzip, guile-gdbm-ffi, gtk+, ghc
and etc.  We'd like to use packages from the manifest to avoid
additional downloads, but it's not awlays possible...