[bug#51948] [PATCH] Meson needs proper wrapping

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> skribis:

>> How about providing a user-facing ‘meson’ package that incorporates this
>> fix, while keeping the other ‘meson’ packages unchanged, to avoid
>> rebuilding too much?  This can be achieved by marking the other packages
>> as hidden.
> I pushed an update that does precisely that. Is the name "meson-wrapped"
> OK? Also, how can I influence guix to rather install the wrapped version
> when the user invokes "guix install meson"?

I you just add another meson@0.60 package like this patch does, the UI
will complain that “meson@0.60” is ambiguous, that there are two of them.

To work around it, I’d mark the unwrapped meson@0.60 as hidden (using
the ‘properties’ field) while keeping the other one visible.

That way “guix install meson” will install the wrapped one.

Does that make sense?

TIA,
Ludo’.