Subject: [bug#36477] [PATCH v3 30/48] packages: Set outputs field as thunked.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:41:28 +0200

Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> For which package did you have a needed for that?
>
> That's for libnl which has python2 and python3 outputs for python
> extensions. However, we do not currently support cross compilation of
> python extensions.
>
> Adding cross compilation of Python extension would be the right thing to
> do but it's really hard. Nix is also struggling on that, see:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53320.
>
> So I don't have anything better to propose. WDYT?

In (gnu packages …) there are no users of the “python2” and “python3”
outputs of libnl.  What about making separate ‘libnl-python’ packages?
Marius, WDYT?

Ludo’.