Re: Fixing package-with-python2 (was: Package transformations)

[Andreas Enge]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 08:49:10AM -0500, Thompson, David wrote:
> Here's a potential solution for 'package-with-python2': module
> introspection.  AIUI, the issue is that some Python 2 packages need
> extra manual tweaking, but 'package-with-python2' creates package
> variants without these tweaks. Our algorithm could look up
> 'python2-foo' in (gnu packages python) and use that package object, if
> it exists.  This would stop the recursive transformation for that
> branch of the dependency graph and allow us to tweak Python 2 variants
> as needed without fear.

I suggested the same off-line: Rewrite the variable name and use that.
But I was told it could not be done in Guile, so I am happy to stand
corrected.

Andreas