> Would it make sense to add a check for it at configure time and > conditionally compile and install the modules only if 'guile-ncurses' is > found, like what is done for 'guile-json'?
Doesn't this just complicate things? How about decoupling things instead? Put the installer in a separate repo and make it a regular guix package? Or keep it in the same repo and make it a guix package. Then if someone wants to use guix-install they can say guix package -i guix-install. I'd suggest the same for guix refresh since people are against adding a json dependency. We could even go as far as making each guix command a package. Then we can be a little more galant with dependencies and if someone only wants to use guix-build and guix-package they only have to install those.
