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Subject: [bug#33575] [PATCH] guix: lint: Add checker to check if inputs are
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On 2018-12-06 01:42, Oleg Pykhalov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 
> […]
> 
>> It’s something we rarely do so we’d get warnings for most packages.  As
>> a side effect, people may pay less attention to what ‘guix lint’ says.
> 
> I think this should not stop us from improving a linter and an option
> like --misc-checks=sort-input,foo,bar could be used for such cases.

I agree with Oleg here. 

If many packages needs inputs to be sorted lets write a guix lint --sort
modelling the updater (that is make the changes in the work tree to be
committed). 

-- 
Cheers 
Swedebugia