On 2024-04-09 11:12:22 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > In trying to verify weather adding or removing an input affects a > package, I was wondering if there are any transformations to do so, > rather than having to edit the package definition, build the guix > checkout, etc. or play games with guix time-machine. > > It seems like --with-input almost gets you there, at least for removing > dependencies, you can do something like: > > guix build --with-input=r-minimal=perl diffoscope > > But obviously, this no longer has r-minimal. > > > I'd want something almost like: > > guix build --add-input=perl diffoscope > > Or: > > guix build --remove-input=r-minimal diffoscope > > Is there a trivial way to do this sort of thing already?
I do not think there is a command line argument, but -e can be (mis)used for
this it seems:
guix build -e '(begin
(use-modules (guix packages) (gnu packages diffoscope))
(package/inherit diffoscope
(native-inputs (modify-inputs (package-inputs diffoscope)
(delete "r-minimal")))))'
You could write a couple of helper functions utilizing the above for
adding/removing (native-)inputs and use guix repl to use them in non-horrible
way?
I agree that having --add-input --remove-input --add-native-input
--remove-native-input would be easier to use from command-line, but quick search
suggest it does not exist (as you already noticed).
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> This seems similar in spirit to --with-patch, which adds a patch to the
> package definition...
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> live well,
> vagrant
Have a nice day,
Tomas
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