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From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 11:13:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190205111301.2070ec2d@alma-ubu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87munbkvy8.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:52:47 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:


> (Note that, IIUC, in openSuSE a package can be broken and yet remain
> installable by users, because the last binary that was produced is
> still around.)

We have guix pull --commit=..., inferiors, channels and time-travel, so
there are plenty opportunities to keep old states :-)

Björn


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-05 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-04 11:16 Policy to remove obsolete packages Björn Höfling
2019-02-04 11:51 ` Pjotr Prins
2019-02-04 18:06 ` Andreas Enge
2019-02-04 22:18   ` Leo Famulari
2019-02-04 23:47     ` zimoun
2019-02-05 10:24       ` Björn Höfling
2019-02-07 12:40         ` zimoun
2019-02-08  8:47           ` Björn Höfling
2019-02-04 22:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-05 10:13   ` Björn Höfling [this message]
2019-02-05 21:31     ` ng0
2019-02-05 22:47       ` swedebugia
2019-02-05 23:52         ` ng0
2019-02-06 22:32         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-07 12:42           ` swedebugia

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