On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:59 PM Jens-Ulrik Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:49 AM Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:33 AM Jens-Ulrik Petersen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I am trying to package¹ editline² for Fedora, >> >> Please check the libedit package and see if that is the same as what >> you are trying to package. > > > How many readline compatible libraries do we need, right? > Apparently editline originates from minix. > > I am packaging editline because it is a (recent) dependency of nix alas. > (nix itself can't be packaged properly in Fedora anyway because of '/nix'.) > Probably it could be retrofitted to use libedit instead but I don't really > want to do that. > So adding editline will make it easier to build nix for Fedora. >
Nix can be made to use GNU Readline. editline and libedit are both API compatible with GNU readline, so just use that. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
