From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com, 31142@debbugs.gnu.org, ludo@gnu.org
Subject: bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:13:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o95vnnvm.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <783C112A-8BD6-4BB6-B20C-65B74F3BF649@gmail.com>
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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>Yes, and I think we’ll close it as “wontfix”. :-)
>
> May I ask why? It seems it'd be ideal if packages got upgraded only when needed; the false upgrades pollute the output of an upgrade and makes it less useful.
It also generates spurious generations.
Last but not least, it makes it hard to the user to know when something
actually needs to be updated.
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Pierre Neidhardt
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-28 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-13 5:57 bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages Chris Marusich
2018-04-18 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-15 11:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-27 11:33 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-28 12:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-28 12:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-28 13:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-28 13:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-28 14:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-28 13:01 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-03-28 13:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
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