Subject: Re: bug#43303: GCC package name

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:16:36 +0200

Hi Ludo,

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 12:41, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > With the aliases in place, a command like 'guix install gcc' works as expected.
>
> I’ve now added such an alias:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=f17e1802ec325e5cc86d4908f05ac69aafdf39da

Nice use of deprecated-package. :-)

About discoverability (guix search gcc) there is still 2 issues:

 1. libgccjit inherits from gcc-9 but the synopsis/description is not updated.
 2. gccgo uses custom-gcc and so reuse the same synopsis/description.

The #1 is easy to fix -- I can send a patch which precises the
synopsis/description of libgccjit.

What is the best for #2?  Add 2 optional arguments to 'custom-gcc'
(synopsis and description)?  Other?

Last, it is unfortunate that the package gccmakedep has the exact same
number of occurence of the term 'gcc' but it is not an issue.

Cheers,
simon