Subject: Re: bug#43303: GCC package name

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:32:46 +0200

zimoun <[email-masked]> writes:

> About discoverability (guix search gcc) there is still 2 issues:
>
>  1. libgccjit inherits from gcc-9 but the synopsis/description is not updated.
>  2. gccgo uses custom-gcc and so reuse the same synopsis/description.
>
> The #1 is easy to fix -- I can send a patch which precises the
> synopsis/description of libgccjit.

Sounds good!

> What is the best for #2?  Add 2 optional arguments to 'custom-gcc'
> (synopsis and description)?  Other?

custom-gcc returns a package value, so we can inherit from that and
overwrite the synopsis and description fields.

-- 
Ricardo