From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should updaters suggest changes to inputs?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:46:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zind15po.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160912142832.GB24630@macbook42.flashner.co.il>
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Do you think “guix refresh” should also mention changes to inputs?
[…]
> Like if you were rerunning `guix import foo bar'?
Exactly, that’s the idea. The updater has to look up upstream
information anyway, so it might as well import and compare the inputs.
If the importers produce high-quality expressions, this would be rather
useful, I think.
~~ Ricardo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 13:45 Should updaters suggest changes to inputs? Ricardo Wurmus
2016-09-12 14:17 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-12 14:20 ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-12 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-12 14:28 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-12 15:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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