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[PATCH] gnu: Add diff-so-fancy.

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: EuAndreh <eu <at> euandre.org>
Cc: 44821 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#44821] [PATCH v2] gnu: Add diff-so-fancy.
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:00:42 -0500

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 12:20:17PM -0300, EuAndreh wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > It's impractical to propagate ncurses — ncurses is very widely used and
> > this will cause "profile conflicts" if anyone tries to make a profile
> > that refers to multiple versions of ncurses.
> >
> > Is there any way to make the built package refer explicitly to the
> > ncurses store directory, so that it can be a regular input?
> 
> I'm not sure. How could I accomplish that?
> 
> I put ncurses as a propagates input because diff-so-fancy relies on it
> for the execution.
> 
> Maybe a "(wrap-program ...)" could solve that? I think it would solve
> the problem you raised, right?

Yes, perhaps, or you could substitute the calls to ncurses with the full
store path of the ncurses executable.

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