Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add awesome.

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:57:41AM +1000, Carlo Zancanaro wrote:
> On 14 June 2016 at 01:46, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I think that imagemagick is only required while building, so it can be a
> > 'native-input'.
> >
> > You can check what packages the built output refers to: $ guix gc
> > --references $(./pre-inst-env guix build awesome)
> >
> > Imagemagick is not in the list.
> >
> 
> Thanks for this! I had assumed that the "guix lint" would tell me about
> something like that, given the check "inputs-should-be-native".

It appears that this check currently warns you if pkg-config is an input
type besides native-input. So, it's designed to take a list of software
that is typically only used at build time. But, it can't guess at the
proper operation of the software being packaged ;)