Hello,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. febr.
14., K 13:25):

> Hi,
>
> On dim., 12 févr. 2023 at 01:14, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> There is an idea to update guix refresh --list-dependent to handle the
> >> case with inherited packages as well.  WDYT?
> >
> > Unfortunately, it’s not possible because inheritance info isn’t
> > available at run time.
>

My idea here was to rescan the source with a minimal scanner and build up
an inheritance aware dependency graph. We could then make this information
available in some way, but about that part I did not think about too much
yet.

Another thing that could possibly work is to enrich the package with
inheritance information, but I am not sure that this can be done in a
backwards compatible way. Wdyt?

>
> Well, with the current implementation of ’inherit’, which is just
> copy/paste at the record level, indeed it is not possible to detect some
> relationship.
>
> However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant
> instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages.  Doing
> so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’,
> which could be used then by --list-dependent.
>
> Many of us are bitten by this.  I remember a recent update of Git which
> also missed the dependency of git-minimal. :-)
>
> For sure, QA helps a lot.  Somehow, braces and belt. ;-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon
>
Regards,
g_bor

>
>
>
>