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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Should updaters suggest changes to inputs?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:17:59 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> Hi Guix,
>
> one problem that I=E2=80=99ve stumbled upon with R packages is that new v=
ersions
> occasionally depend on new inputs.  =E2=80=9Cguix refresh -u=E2=80=9D upd=
ates the
> version number and the hash for me, but it doesn=E2=80=99t tell me that n=
ew
> inputs are needed =E2=80=94 or that existing inputs have been dropped =E2=
=80=94
> according to upstream=E2=80=99s DESCRIPTION file.
>
> Usually, these things become obvious when I rebuild all updated
> packages, but it=E2=80=99s possible I miss something.
>
> Do you think =E2=80=9Cguix refresh=E2=80=9D should also mention changes t=
o inputs?

Looks a good idea, maybe with an additional -r / --recursive param...

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Vincent Legoll