Re: guix edit

[Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche@hypermove.net>]

On 2015-06-17 21:15, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
> Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche@hypermove.net> skribis:
> 
>> A usecase, I have in mind from experience, is being in vm/container
>> and having to edit the recipe for that specific vm *but* that recipe
>> is in the main normal repository. Like for instance, gcc for a
>> specific target. `guix edit gcc:4.5' should open or clone the correct
>> recipe.
> 
> Yes, ‘guix edit gcc-4.7’ edits the recipe for GCC 4.7.4.

I'm not sure this is real usecase for guix or maybe it's not required at 
all and was specific to the way we were working in my company. I think 
it's not supported right now in guix, but in Gentoo it does. You can 
have serveral repositories and some repositories specific to one target. 
GCC 4.7 can be overriden in the target specific repository. The reason 
this is helpful, is that when we put a software version in stable - 
ready to be built, we are sure it has no impact on other targets.

Right now it can of work with the env variable that guix package use to 
look for packages.



Regards