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Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com> writes:

> I suppose dependencies of these
> packages have to be maintained in the same channel right? Otherwise, if I
> rely on packages from guix distribution, they can be dropped or updated to
> an incompatible version at any moment. That scares me a little, because it
> could break my channel anytime, or am I mistaken?

This is correct; it=E2=80=99s the Linux model of API stability: you need to=
 make
sure that your code remains compatible.

--=20
Ricardo