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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:10:39 +0100
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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> At first sight, to me, it=E2=80=99s not entirely clear how to determine =
whether
>> something is to be upgraded in the presence of propagated inputs.
>
> I think the linked discussion suggested we checked upgrades
> recursively.  Wouldn't that work?

Maybe!  Let=E2=80=99s open a new bug.  :)

>> And more importantly, I think the =E2=80=9Cimperative=E2=80=9D model is =
necessarily not
>> as expressive and =E2=80=9Cclean=E2=80=9D as =E2=80=98--manifest=E2=80=
=99.  There are tradeoffs to make.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.  How do we upgrade
> declaratively?

Just =E2=80=98guix pull && guix package --manifest=3Dmy-stuff.scm=E2=80=99.

Ludo=E2=80=99.