Re: Rethinking propagated inputs?

[zimoun]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2021 at 00:12, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

>>   (define glib
>>     (package
>>       (name "glib")
>>       (outputs '("out" ; everything
>>                  "bin" ; glib-mkenums ... depends on Python
>>                  "build")) ; glib-2.0.pc
>>       (propagated-inputs
>>         `(("pcre" ,pcre #:propagate-for-output "build") ; in the 
>> Requires.private field of glib-2.0.pc
>>           ("libffi" ,libffi #:propagate-for-output "build") ; ditto, for 
>> gobject-2.0.pc
>>           ;; etc.
>>           ))
>>       (native-inputs '()) ; not relevant to this e-ail
>>       ...))
>
> Good’ol ‘ROADMAP’ file has a half-baked proposal along these lines.

I think you mean the ’TODO’ file:

<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/TODO#n37>

Cheers,
simon