Subject: Re: [bug#33010] [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add guix-minimal.

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:02:04 +0300

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:42:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [email-masked] skribis:
> 
> > From: Eric Bavier <[email-masked]>
> >
> > * gnu/packages/guile.scm (guile-2.0.13): New variable.
> > * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (guix)[arguments]: Adjust 'wrap-program'
> > phase to handle "missing" inputs.
> > (guix-minimal): New variable.
> 
> What’s the intended use case?  Is it to check that Guix compiles against
> an old Guile 2.0 and without optional dependencies?
> 
> I wonder whether we should add packages “just” for this, especially
> given that 2.0 support is reaching end-of-life and that 2.0.13 is pretty
> old.
> 

It might be old but it's still hanging around. Right now iirc Debian
stable and Ubuntu 18.04 both ship with Guile-2.0 and with guile packages
built against it. If someone wanted to build Guix from source using the
various guile libraries there's a fair amount of packaging to do.

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