Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Update to 1.61.0.

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
>> boost has quite a few dependencies, as Ricardo already pointed out, and in my
>> experience tends to be a bit fragile. So maybe the best option would be to
>> create a boost-update branch and have it built on hydra to see whether there
>> are problems. It not, one could then cherry-pick the commit to master.
>
> I replied before reading all the messages in that thread. Of course if Eric
> has tried the commit locally and tested that nothing breaks, this could be
> pushed to master directly.

Should this not be pushed to core-updates? `guix refresh -l` reports:

Building the following 190 packages would ensure 395 dependent packages
are rebuilt: [...]

That will take a while on Hydra, and in the mean time anyone trying to
install any dependent (or sub-dependent) package will have to compile
them locally.

Unless there is a security issue, isn't this exactly what core-updates
is for? Is `guix refresh recursive`? Many of the sub-depentents seem
like they have other dependents, affecting more than 10% of the tree.

~marius