Re: Symlinks to generic names

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 05:42:01PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:40:39PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: python3 - python For python, the binary python is provided by python-2.7.6. The binary

Re: Symlinks to generic names

2014-02-02 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:40:39PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: python3 - python For python, the binary python is provided by python-2.7.6. The binary python3 (and python3.3) is provided by python-3.3.3. And there is python-wrapper, which installs python-3.3.3 and creates symlinks python -

Re: Symlinks to generic names

2014-02-01 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with lex and yacc . Guix does not provide these. Instead we have flex and bison. Most operating systems have symbolic links lex - flex and yacc - bison. Shouldn't we provide these too? I guess this should solve the problem (untested):

Re: Symlinks to generic names

2014-02-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org writes: Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with lex and yacc . Guix does not provide these. Instead we have flex and bison. Most operating systems have symbolic links lex - flex and yacc - bison. Shouldn't we provide these too? I

Re: Symlinks to generic names

2014-02-01 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 08:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: Some software (rightly or wrongly) tries to build with lex and yacc . Guix does not provide these. Instead we have flex and bison. Most operating systems