Subject: Re: [bug#54069] [PATCH v2 3/4] gnu: libosinfo: Unbundle usb.ids, pci.ids.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:17:46 +0100

Ludovic Courtès schreef op zo 27-02-2022 om 22:23 [+0100]:
> Can’t we instead do:
> 
>   #~(let* ((usb.ids (string-append #$hwdata:usb "/share/hwdata/usb.ids"))
>            (pci.ids (string-append #$hwdata:pci "/share/hwdata/pci.ids")))
>       …)
> 
> ?

We could, and that's what the original v2 patch did.
However, this prevents package transformations:

  (package
    (inherit libosinfo)
    (native-inputs
      ;; not sure about the syntax 
      (modify-inputs (package-inputs libosinfo)
        (replace "hwdata:usb"
          hwdata-with-some-new-fancy-hardware "usb"))))

Greetings,
Maxime.