Re: Design decision behind inputs/native-inputs/propagated-inputs

[Ben Woodcroft]

Hi,

On 22/01/16 09:19, Steven Allen wrote:
> Just to be clear, given:
>
>      (package
>          (name "foo")
>          (inputs `(("bar", bar)))
>          (native-inputs `(("baz", baz)))
>          ...
>      )
>
> If I install "foo", "foo" will **always** be able to use the files in "bar"
> but will not (may not?) be able to use the files in "baz"?
That's true for some definition of 'use', yes. If you add foo to your 
profile and it is downloaded from a substitute (as opposed to being 
built from source on your machine), then you'll have to download bar as 
well, but not necessarily baz.
> Sorry about the confusion...
Not at all.

ben