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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Matthew Jordan <matthewjordandevops@yandex.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] ruby-byebug@9.0.5
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 17:43:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160605214359.GC2928@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760tngwlh.fsf@mailerver.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 05:22:02PM -0400, Matthew Jordan wrote:
> Wouldn't it be more useful to have one or versions of a package, since
> guix is capable of handling multiple versions? Though I have no problems
> upgrading the previous version, hopefully nothing will break.

In general, Guix handles this just fine. But somebody has to maintain
all those versions ;) We often suggest that if one user needs some old
version of a package, they maintain the package privately. For example,
using $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-05 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-31 15:38 [Patch] ruby-byebug@9.0.5 Matthew Jordan
2016-06-02 10:19 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-06-02 12:19   ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-06-05 21:22     ` Matthew Jordan
2016-06-05 21:43       ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-06-05 21:54         ` Matthew Jordan
2016-06-08 12:41           ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-06-10 15:11           ` Leo Famulari

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