Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add toxic.

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 06:51:10PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote:
     ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > * gnu/packages/messaging.scm (toxic): New variable.
     > ---
     >  gnu/packages/messaging.scm | 47 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     >  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
     >
     > +(define-public toxic
     > +  (package
     > +    (name "toxic")
     > +    (version "0.7.2")
     > +    (source
     > +     (origin
     > +       (method url-fetch)
     > +       (uri (string-append "https://github.com/JFreegman/toxic/archive/";
     > +                           "v" version ".tar.gz"))
     > +       (sha256
     > +        (base32
     > +         "0nbcj71ffl85l396bxc5cs8d7abn4b7absaj5asq9bvcfv52m5m2"))
     > +       (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))
     > +    (inputs
     > +     `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)
     
     I'm not sure what's up here. IIRC, we don't install the ncurses *.pc
     files. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.

It would seem that we don't.  In fact so far as I'm aware, ncurses doesn't even
provide such a thing.  Instead it provides it's own pkg-config like utility 
called
"ncursesw60config" which you can use if you like.

Personally however I don't like either approach.   I think it much cleaner and 
more
reliably to explicitly state which path(s) and libraries you need rather than 
to 
rely on some wierd script to guess it for you.
     
J'

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