Re: [PATCH] gnu: alacritty: Update to 0.7.1.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hi!

Nicolas Goaziou 写道：
> As written in the commit message, I removed it because Alacritty 
> was
> working without it

Thank you.  That's more than I could infer from a terse ‘Remove 
unneeded phase’: you ran it on Wayland [see below] and it worked.

It's OK add rationales like this above the dry changelog (I 
mention it only because people have assumed the contrary).

> here on my Gnome 3 Wayland session, hence the "unneeded" part.

Are you sure Gnome 3 doesn't run X?

I'd be suprised (and interested) if

 DISPLAY= $(guix time-machine --commit=3e10f0e -- \
        build alacritty)/bin/alacritty

works for you.  It should complain and fail to launch at all, 
because it can't connect to the legacy X(wayland) server.

> What else was necessary?

I don't know.  Maybe more testing, or pinging the original author. 
No definitive answers here.

> Please bear in mind that:
> 1. it was not a small version bump, so many things could have 
> changed in
>    the package definition;

Right, I had to bump the version numbers, but it wasn't an 
unreasonable amount of work.

> 2. the hack is actually non-trivial as it references packages 
> that do
>    not even belong to the inputs but was not even a single 
>    comment line
>    explaining its importance.

Agreed on both counts: it's a gross hack[0], and it deserves a 
comment.  I should have added one and will do so now.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: The alternative is stuffing both X libraries into 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is grosser...

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