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

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 23:42:58 +0200

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.

Thank you,
Ludo’.