Re: Install hook

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On 03/19/2017 01:14 PM, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> I think install hooks are scripts run after each package installation,
> that are provided by the package itself. We already have a similar
> mechanism that takes place when building the user's profile. See
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/profiles.scm.
> For instance, we build a icon-theme.cache cache file for every icon
> theme in the user's profile.
> 
> I have seen references to gschemas.compiled in our
> gtk-or-glib-build-system. Currently we build the file in each package,
> which means that only one version will be present in the user's profile
> if they install more that one package containing this file. I believe
> gschemas.compiled contains important information about some graphical
> packages, and in our current system, only one package can be referenced
> that way.
> 
> I think we should make sure that this file is never present in the
> output of a package, and add a function to build it in profiles.scm.
> 
> Does it make any sense?
> 

Yes, exactly. These profile hooks look similar to what I meant.