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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36333: Misleading hint for url-fetch
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:51:33 +0200
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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Hello,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> I just encountered the following:
>
>  foo.scm:4:2: error: url-fetch: unbound variable
>  hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (guix build download))'?
>
> Actually importing that module, instead of (guix download), will cause
> some other very hard-to-debug error that I can't remember but
> coincidentally helped someone fix on #guix the other day.

Oh, bad hint indeed.

Now, the program cannot determine that of the two =E2=80=98url-fetch=E2=80=
=99, only one
makes sense.

Should it search further and propose all the possible options?  In
general there won=E2=80=99t be more than a couple of options.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.