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From: Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	 Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
	 Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>
Subject: Re: properties for default version? (was bug#60200: Incompatibilities between gcc-toolchain and R packages)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:41:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k01lngw3.fsf@lease-up.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8l5dtxv.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:09:16 +0100")


Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Thoughts?

What if package variables in Guix were functions that accepted an
optional argument?

Each function could deliver any available version or a default, possibly
accompanied by a warning when the wanted version was not available.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner


  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-17 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-19 12:00 bug#60200: Incompatibilities between gcc-toolchain and R packages Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-12-19 23:32 ` zimoun
2022-12-21  9:24   ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2023-01-11 21:13     ` properties for default version? (was bug#60200: Incompatibilities between gcc-toolchain and R packages) Simon Tournier
2023-01-12  6:22       ` Csepp
2023-01-12  9:03       ` pukkamustard
2023-01-17 16:09       ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-17 18:41         ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2023-01-17 18:48         ` Simon Tournier

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