Re: Required packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> > OK.  That’s “user-environment-propagated-inputs”.  We could achieve
>> > that by just changing guix-profile to install propagated inputs. 
>> > That’s probably the right thing to do anyway.
>> Commit 4dede02 implements that.
>
> It apparently works. The propagated input packages are hidden when issuing
>    guix-package --list-installed ,
> which seems a good idea so that the user is not confused by losing several 
> packages at a time when just uninstalling one.

Yes.

> (Well, there is always source for confusion: When I install mpc and compile 
> code needing gmp, everything will work; then I uninstall mpc, and things 
> stop working, although the code does not require mpc.)

Right, but that’s life.  ;-)

I’ll update the manual to document this behavior.

Thanks for testing!

Ludo’.