Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Augeas.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

>> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
>> +    ;; Marked as "required" in augeas.pc
>> +    (propagated-inputs
>> +     `(("libxml2" ,libxml2)))
>
> Is there really no way to avoid this?

I don’t know.  The problem here is that when augeas is used as a library
and you only add “augeas” (but not “libxml2”) as an input the
configuration will silently fail.

It is ugly, though, that a user installing augeas as a command line tool
would end up with “libxml2” in their profile.

Should these be two package variants then?

~~ Ricardo