Re: [PATCH] gnu: xmonad: Add missing propagated input.

[José Miguel Sánchez García]

On 2017-01-07 22:48, address@hidden wrote:
> José Miguel Sánchez García <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > xmonad package needs some love, and this is the first step. ghc should
> > be a
> > propagated input, because it's needed for certain commands such as
> > xmonad --recompile.
>
> Instead of propagating it, would it be possible to hard-code the
> absolute file name of ‘ghc’ inside the xmonad source?
>
> That would avoid pulling in GHC in the user’s profile, which could
> conflict with the user’s GHC.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ludo’.
I don't understand. xmonad needs ghc at runtime to compile the 
configuration
file (because the configuration file is a binary and XMonad is a 
library).
Could you explain better?

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José Miguel Sánchez García