Re: Package inheritance doesn't inherit name

[Ian Eure]

Hi nomike,

"nomike (they/them)" <nom...@nomike.com> writes:
Hi!

I've just discovered that when you inherit a package from 
another one,
it does not inherit the parent's name.

In the
[[https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Inheritance.html][guix
cookbook]] however. it says:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
All unspecified fields are inherited from the parent package.
#+END_QUOTE

But obviously this is not the case, as you get a compile error 
from
guile when you omit the name from a derived package.

Can you provide a reproducer?  I get the documented behavior for a 
trivial case:

   scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (gnu packages emacs-xyz)
   scheme@(guile-user)> (package-name (package (inherit 
   emacs-org)))
   $18 = "emacs-org"
   scheme@(guile-user)>

I’m on Guix commit efac01f19b65d7d77a98bbfd57fe2073fb13064a.

Thanks,
 -- Ian