Re: Brasero, or gnome without gnome

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:17:39AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> What I had in mind is that upon installation in the user’s profile, the
>> glib-compile-foobar command would be run for all the schema-providing
>> packages to appear in the new profile.
>
> This could even be done automatically without specifying it in the package
> description whenever a package contains a file in share/glib-2.0/schemas/.
> The glib-compile-schemas (there is also glib-compile-resources) is part of
> the glib package, so should be available as an input to such a package.
> But which glib version would we choose then when constructing the user
> profile? Different installed packages could have different glibs as inputs,
> for instance. The one that is "current" in the sense that it would be
> installed by "guix package -i glib"?

Assuming the format is stable, we could just use the current glib.

If that’s not the case, we can always come up with a more sophisticated
approach.

Ludo’.