Re: guix refresh --update Removes Needed Dependencies

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:45:48PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi jgart,
> 
> "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> skribis:
> 
> > ./pre-inst-env guix refresh --update python-sphinx
> 
> [...]
> 
> > -           ;; The Sphinx LaTeX library '\RequirePackage' or \\usepackage
> > -           ;; these:
> > -           texlive-amsfonts             ;amsmath, amssymb, amstext
> > -           texlive-amsmath
> > -           texlive-capt-of
> > -           texlive-carlisle             ;remreset
> 
> To avoid this problem one can add package properties such as
> ‘updater-extra-native-inputs’ in this case:
> 
>   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-refresh.html#index-updater_002dextra_002dinputs_002c-package-property
> 
> However, the way it’s implemented right now, you have to list the name
> of every input that should be preserved by ‘guix refresh -u’, which is
> inconvenient in this particular case because there are many of them.
> 
> I can think of two ways to improve on that:
> 
>   1. Use one of the ‘texlive-scheme-*’ packages instead of this long
>      list.  :-)
> 
>   2. Change the code to interpret extra inputs are regexps instead of
>      names.

I like both ideas

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