Re: new manifest format readers?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> ;; Boilerplate code to turn the above list of packages into a manifest
>>> (use-modules (gnu packages))
>>> (packages->manifest (map (compose list specification->package+output) 
>>> packages))
>>
>> Yes, I finally found this and it is not very friendly/discoverable.
>
> Agreed.  How about making these two changes:
>
>   1. Include (gnu packages) in the default evaluation environment of
>      manifests.
>
>   2. (define (package-specifications->manifest specs)
>        (packages->manifest (map (compose list specification->package+output)
>                            specs)))
>
> Thoughts?

This sounds like a very useful improvement to me.

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Ricardo

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