From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 44327@debbugs.gnu.org, Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com>
Subject: bug#44327: `guix install` doesn't warn about collison in profile
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:30:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ2UpyD6PexzNaU4J3OyvY0KBycuL7-Xdn4a4gBjo+4V1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blgjy9ea.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 17:20, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Currently, ‘guix install’ errors out if you try to install two
> same-named packages with a different version number or a different store
> file name (typically via propagated inputs).
>
> Here, ‘emacs’ and ‘emacs-xwidgets’ have different names, so it doesn’t
> complain.
>
> Perhaps we should offer a way to annotate packages as conflicting with
> one another?
Why? The solution seems to check the path names. Here, the 2
packages provide 'bin/emacs'; which is the conflict. However, this
could be implemented with care otherwise it will slow down.
I have not check 'union-build' but maybe it is already the case. :-)
All the best,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-30 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-30 11:17 bug#44327: `guix install` doesn't warn about collison in profile Zhu Zihao
2020-10-30 16:15 ` zimoun
2020-10-30 16:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-30 16:30 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-10-31 10:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-04 1:47 ` Zhu Zihao
2020-11-04 17:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
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