Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 02:55:01 +0100 > Mekeor Melire wrote: > >> This is meant to fix bug#25759 “Should 'surf' depend on 'xprop' and >> 'dmenu'?“: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2017-02/msg00054.html >> >> I'm not sure if we really want this patch to be merged because there was >> not much of a discussion on this proposal on the mailing list. > > It's not finished. http://git.suckless.org/surf/tree/config.def.h#n38 > invokes xprop and dmenu - and these places would have to be > substituted by store references, like: > > (substitute* "tree/config.def.h" > (("xprop") (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "xprop") "/bin/xprop")) > (("dmenu") (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "dmenu") "/bin/dmenu"))) > > I'm not sure whether Guix will retain the store references on the next > GC, though. I'm sure Guix does, considering we use this trick for all sorts of packages, including important ones like shadow.