Re: Questions regarding substitutes with debug output

[Ricardo Wurmus]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Therefore, since your question is rooted from GWL:
>
>         I need to specify the package programmatically as a string in
>         Guile.  More specifically in the process packages field of Guix
>         Workflow Language.
>
> maybe GWL could also accept a symbol instead of a name string.  Well, I
> have not used GWL since many months and I do not remember but I think it
> is doable.  Ricardo?

GWL accepts specifications or package values, so you could use (@ (my
packages foo) gcc) to prefer that over some other package with the same
name.

-- 
Ricardo