Subject: bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 20:38:12 +0200

Brian Cully schreef op za 23-04-2022 om 13:29 [-0400]:
> 	I like this, and would prefer it over the ‘list’ proposal. I’m
> not sure how to implement it given my limited knowledge of Guix
> internals, though. Special-casing a list inside of file-append was
> fairly straightforward and solved the immediate issue.

Proposed implementation:

(define (output thing output)
  (gexp-input package output))

Seems like this thing already exists, it's just not well-known and not
documented in the manual.

Greetings,
Maxime