Re: --with-source version not honored?

[Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk>]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> For historical reasons, ‘--with-source’ only applies to leaf packages,
> unlike most (all?) other transformation inputs.  Concretely, this works:

Yes I think this is what I'm hitting.  I want to reference a package
using --with-source, but then immediately build an environment which
feeds this source as an input into a 2nd package - forcing it to
rebuild.

My hack works but for propagated dependencies in python - but it's not a
proper solution, and is brittle.  I was going to try to improve
it by writing a Guile script to avoid the overwriting - I can post any
solution I find if I get something working.

Currently I can only do 2 things at the command line it seems:

1. I can try package X without writing a package but only in isolation
or as a leaf.

2. I can replace package X as a dependency of package Y, if I write a package
for it.

Being able to combine 1 and 2 at the command line - would be very
useful.

Cheers,
Phil.