On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 03:31:32PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > We have the linter check for CVEs and updates to packages in a list, but
> > what about those packages they depend on? It would be great to be able
> > to 'guix lint --recursive foo' and get foo and also all the packages in
> > the different types of inputs.
> 
> On the question of CVEs, see also
> <https://issues.guix.info/issue/31442>.
> 
> Do you think --recursive would be useful for other types of linters?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Checking for new versions would definately be good. It seems to me that checking
everything would make for better code overall, but the behavior I would
expect is that it would check all the linters specified in the command.

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