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

From: [email-masked] (宋文武)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 12:34:09 +0800

[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hey,
>
> [email-masked] (宋文武) skribis:
>
>> [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...
>
> Right, so that’s not new.
>
> You’re OK with the rest of the patch?
>

Yes, it looks good to me, and it's useful for the 'dconf-editor'
package, which can edit the dconf database with the support from
available gsetting schemas.