Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add cairocffi.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> I hope to eventually add some mechanism to detect and/or avoid these
> problems in the future.  In the meantime, we'll just have to accept that
> this problem will occasionally bite us.  I don't think it's reasonable
> to expect people to do a "make clean-go && make" every time they add a
> package.  IMO, that cure would be worse than the disease.

Right.  And yes, we’ll need a better solution.

> This commit breaks the Guix build for me.
>
> Due to complications arising from circular module dependencies, we can't
> use 'package-with-python2' from gtk.scm.  For now, I suggest moving it
> to python.scm, where all other uses of 'package-with-python2' are
> currently located.
>
> If you'd like to understand the reasons, read on (optional).

Thanks for catching it, for explaining, and to Federico for the quick
fix!

Ludo’.