Subject: Re: bug#40528: 'guix lint' does not check whether propagated-inputs should be native

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 23:42:18 +0200

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:24:25PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> 'guix lint -c inputs-should-be-native' only checks the 'inputs' field of
>> a package, not propagated-inputs.
>
> The attached patch should add the propagated inputs to the list of
> inputs to check. Do we want to start telling it to ignore some of them?

Wow, that was incredibly fast!

> gnu/packages/check.scm:2200:2: [email-masked]: 'python-nose' should probably be a native input

I'm inclined to leave it.  I think many of these plugin packages should
not be propagating the package that they plug into anyway.

LGTM!