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[bug#50833] [PATCH] Add Bower (notmuch curses email client)


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: [bug#50833] [PATCH] Add Bower (notmuch curses email client)
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:01:21 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi jgart,

[...]

>> jgart, could you look into that?  Then we can bring this review to
>> completion :-)
>
> Hi Ludo, Maxim,
>
>
> Thanks for the review and encouragement. Sorry for the delay. I've been
> in the process of relocating/starting a new job and haven't been able
> to catch up on Guix stuff I have pending.
>
> I spoke with wangp regading Lynx as an optional dependency:
>
> https://github.com/wangp/bower/issues/103
>
>> Like Sarah suggested, I’d recommend using ‘substitute*’ to
> replace, say, /usr/bin/sendmail by /gnu/store/…/bin/sendmail.
>
> I can patch sendmail and the others mentioned by Sarah. What should we
> do about lynx given wangp's insight on lynx as default in bower?

I think we should patch it, given that according to wangp "it doesn't
behave that nicely when lynx is missing but it won't crash." and taking
into account that lynx is very small (guix size lynx says it has a
closure of 185.4 MiB).

I'm looking forward to the v2 :-)

Thanks,

Maxim





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