Subject: Re: bug#52717: Add watchdogd

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:38:19 -0500

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 06:14:49PM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> > +               (("/usr/bin/which") (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "which")
> > +                                                  "/bin/which"))
> > +               (("ls\"") (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "coreutils")
> > +                                        "/bin/ls\"")))
> 
> I replaced those lines to use the search-input-file procedure, and
> pushed the whole series.

Hi Mathieu,

I want to point out that search-input-file does not do the same thing as
(assoc-ref inputs "foo").

We should consider search-input-file as a replacement for the WHICH
procedure, and use gexps like #$foo to replace (assoc-ref inputs "foo").