Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:

>> - There may be too many provenances, we need to add a CLI flag to
>>   ignore provenance.
>
> Too many in what sense?
>
> I'd just print a warning if the specification refers to more than, say,
> five inferiors. Users can then clean up their profile or live with the
> mess.
>
> Cleaning up just means updating the profile.

You mean with

guix upgrade -p /path/to/profile?

> That would re-create
> specifications.scm, in a better way than a special CLI flag because
> specifications.scm is always the same as the current profile.

OK, but what about a system where you don't have the profile, only the
specification file?

I believe we still need a flag to override the channels, basically add
-C,--channels to `guix package`.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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