Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Nmap.

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:05:35PM +0100, "Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer" 
>> wrote:
>>> Many distros separate Zenmap from the Nmap package.  Should we do the
>>> same?  If yes, I'll need some help.  This recipe builds it together
>>> with the rest of the suite.
>>
>> Our general policy is to build as intended by upstream with as little
>> changes as possible. So unless there is a compelling reason to
>> separate the two, I would not do it.
>
> Hm, zenmap would pull in X.Org and all sorts of GUI things, which would
> be very annoying for someone who wants nmap on a headless server,
> embedded system, or the like.

Indeed.

This is normally dealt with by using multiple outputs (info "(guix)
Packages with Multiple Outputs").  An example of that is Git: the Tcl
GUIs are moved to a separate output, and so is git-svn support, such
that the main output does not depend on Tcl, libx11, Subversion, etc.

Would it work here?

Thanks,
Ludo’.