Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Augeas.

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:05:43PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> From 546a8651db1c420fee841a2da6474593e4c9aa93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:03:26 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add Augeas.
> 
> * gnu/packages/augeas.scm: New file.
> * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.

[...]

> +(define-public augeas

[...]

> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +    ;; Marked as "required" in augeas.pc
> +    (propagated-inputs
> +     `(("libxml2" ,libxml2)))

Is there really no way to avoid this?

> +    (inputs
> +     `(("readline" ,readline)))
> +    (native-inputs
> +     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
> +    (home-page "http://augeas.net/";)
> +    (synopsis "Edit configuration files programmatically")
> +    (description
> +     "Augeas is a library and command line tool for programmatically editing
> +configuration files in a controlled manner.  Augeas exposes a tree of all
> +configuration settings and a simple local API for manipulating the tree.
> +Augeas then modifies underlying configuration files according to the changes
> +that have been made to the tree; it does as little modeling of configurations
> +as possible, and focuses exclusivley on transforming the tree-oriented syntax
> +of its public API to the myriad syntaxes of individual configuration files.")
> +    (license license:lgpl2.1+)))
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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