Subject: Re: bug#55298: [PATCH 0/1] Do not propagate cwltool inputs.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 00:48:45 +0200

Hi,

Arun Isaac <[email-masked]> skribis:

> cwltool is a command-line tool, not a python library. So, its dependencies
> should be regular inputs, not propagated inputs. In fact, as it stands
> currently, installing cwltool fails due to a package conflict.
>
> $ guix install cwltool
> The following package would be installed:
>    cwltool 3.1.20220119140128
>
> guix install: error: profile contains conflicting entries for python-rdflib
> guix install: error:   first entry: [email-masked] /gnu/store/lxy384l7avd0q4dmfs0zywllb9221y7x-python-rdflib-5.0.0
> guix install: error:    ... propagated from [email-masked]
> guix install: error:    ... propagated from [email-masked]
> guix install: error:   second entry: [email-masked] /gnu/store/2f88f2w44zsvmx8m6ymp1fywiw1h379x-python-rdflib-6.1.1
> guix install: error:    ... propagated from [email-masked]
> guix install: error:    ... propagated from [email-masked]
> guix install: error:    ... propagated from [email-masked]
> hint: You cannot have two different versions or variants of `cwltool' in the same profile.
>
> Arun Isaac (1):
>   gnu: cwltool: Do not propagate inputs.
>
>  gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

You forgot to send the actual patch, but I think removing propagated
inputs in this case is a good idea.  Got for it!

Thanks,
Ludo’.