Hi,
On Mon, 09 May 2022 at 15:33, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Indeed. Where %my-channels would refer to a channels.scm file, right?
>
> A list of channels rather than a file.
Do yo mean
(define %my-channels
(read-this-channel-file "path/to/one-channels-file.scm"))
(with-channels %my-channels
(package …))
?
>> What seems still missing is a way to select these variants from the
>> channel.
>>
>> I am proposing to somehow add a field to ’properties’. WDYT?
>
> Can we not infer this when adding package modules to the load path?
It depends on you walk the packages list. I agree that it should be
done automatically at “guix pull” time (or at inferior time).
> Doing this once per channel seems better than having channel maintainers
> add this to every package.
I agree.
Cheers,
simon
