[bug#57861] [PATCH] gnu: Add ultrastar-deluxe.

[Maxime Devos]

On 17-10-2022 10:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> skribis:
>
> > +;; Lazily resolve to avoid a circular dependency.
> > +(define fpc*
> > +  (delay (module-ref (resolve-interface '(gnu packages pascal))
> > +                     'fpc)))
>
> I think this is unnecessary: you can just #:use-module (gnu packages
> pascal) and have ‘fpc’ in ‘native-inputs’.  Everything will be fine
> because ‘inputs’ is a thunked field (IOW, its evaluation is delayed).

That's still a circular dependency.  Why import (gnu packages pascal) 
when you don't need it (e.g. when installing another, non-pascal, 
package)?  There is some bug report on the excessive dependencies among 
Guix modules with some proposed solutions.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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