Subject: [bug#49169] [PATCH 00/11] Removing input labels from package definitions

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:09:45 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> The main change is the addition of ‘guix style’, based on the script
> I posted earlier.  ‘guix style’ is able to systematically preserve
> comments (margin comments and line comments).  It recognizes and
> “translates” several common idioms.

Here’s a couple of diffs generated by ‘guix style’:

@@ -171,9 +170,9 @@ engine programmable using Lua.")
     (inherit arcan)
     (name "arcan-sdl")
     (inputs
-     `(("sdl" ,sdl)
-       ,@(fold alist-delete (package-inputs arcan)
-               '("libdrm"))))
+     (modify-inputs (package-inputs arcan)
+       (delete "libdrm")
+       (prepend sdl)))
     (arguments
      `(,@(ensure-keyword-arguments
           (package-arguments arcan)
@@ -218,11 +217,7 @@ engine programmable using Lua.")
            ,(string-append "--with-xkb-output="
                            "/tmp"))))   ; FIXME: Copied from xorg
       (native-inputs
-       `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
-         ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
-         ("automake" ,automake)
-         ("libtool" ,libtool)
-         ("util-macros" ,util-macros)))
+       (list pkg-config autoconf automake libtool util-macros))
       (inputs
        `(("arcan" ,arcan)
          ("font-util" ,font-util)

Comments:

@@ -3797,11 +3713,11 @@ important tasks for becoming a daemon process:
                 "1aycpc387wqz7h9w2p53qxn43qsh3m6by6ak4kkc66x9aprr63rz"))))
     (build-system python-build-system)
     (propagated-inputs
-     `(("python-six" ,python-six)))
+     (list python-six))
     (native-inputs
-     `(;; For tests.
-       ("graphviz" ,graphviz)           ;for 'dot'
-       ("python-nose" ,python-nose)))
+     (list ;; For tests.
+           graphviz ;for 'dot'
+           python-nose))
     (home-page "https://github.com/c0fec0de/anytree")
     (synopsis "Lightweight tree data library")

Pretty cool, no?  :-)

Ludo’.