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From: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
Subject: bug#33285: Installing, then removing,
	a package yields a different profile
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:11:41 +0100
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> [snip]
>
> I think it=E2=80=99s fine to leave it as it is, then.  =E2=80=9C--install=
=E2=80=9D and
> =E2=80=9C--remove=E2=80=9D are stateful and should be expected to have qu=
irks like this.
> (E.g. upgrading Guix in between two =E2=80=9C--install=E2=80=9Ds can lead=
 to
> a mosaic of a profile that could not be produced any other way.)

This seems like a very reasonable perspective on this issue, so I
concur. Should we state this explicitly somewhere in the manual?