Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> Am Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:11:37PM +0800 schrieb Z572:
>> kde is more difference program use several identical versions, e.g. KDE
>> frameworks program version is 5.108.0, KDE Plasma program version is
>> 5.27.6, other program version is 23.04.3
>
> We could use two different variables for frameworks and plasma:
> (define-public %kde-framework-version "5.108.0")
> (define-public %kde-plasma-version "5.27.6")
> and, if they are all different, version other programs one by one,
> or if the majority has the same version add yet another variable.
>
>> (And won't the guix refresh stop working if i add %kde-version?)
>
> That should still be fine, it will not notice the difference if the
> version is given through a string or a string "variable" (which is
> in fact a constant).

no, it cann't work, like it:
```
From https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/23.04.3/src/ark-23.04.3.tar.xz...
following redirection to `https://kde.cs.nycu.edu.tw/ftp/stable/release-service/23.04.3/src/ark-23.04.3.tar.xz'...
 ….3.tar.xz  2.9MiB                   2.9MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0%
gnu/packages/kde-utils.scm:54:2: ark: updating from version 22.04.3 to version 23.04.3...
gnu/packages/kde-utils.scm:54:2: warning: ark: no `version' field in source; skipping
```

see attache photo.

>
> If we go for this route, I would start from the beginning:
> Introduce the variables at their current values in one commit, which
> should have no impact on the resulting packages, then try to update them
> and see what QA has to say about it.
>
> iyzsong, what do you think?
>
> Andreas