Packages depending on (guix build syscalls)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

(Resending to the right mailing list, oops!)

Quite a few packages depend on (guix build syscalls), starting from
‘ant-bootstrap’ (since commit cded3a759356ff66b7df668bcdbdfa0daf96f4c5
in 2018) up to GNOME-related packages such as ‘mutter’ (commit
d1c2fe248a7a326189fb7dcae64a59ece96251ba a few months ago).

It’s great that we can reuse this module in different contexts!  The
downside is that the module evolves quite often, because it’s a
foundation for Guix System and other things.  As a result, all these
packages get rebuilt every time we change it.

Maybe the only recommendation I would have is that we should make sure
we really need it before having a package deep down the graph depend on
it.  I wouldn’t want us to do ‘staging’ cycles when we need a change in
(guix build syscalls).

Thoughts?

Ludo’.