Hi, On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 23:31, Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 7., Pén 22:36): >> zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis:
>> >> The thing is, I think it’s something that requires constant care, every >> >> time we add a package or modify an existing one. It’s very easy to lose >> >> benefits that had been previously obtained through hard work! >> > >> > I have never thought, neither tried but is it possible to find and/or >> > build all the packages that 'inherit' from a specific one? >> >> Nope (‘inherit’ is purely syntactic, it doesn’t “live on” at run time.) >> What would it buy you, though? > > It is currently easy to break packages by updating a package that is > inherited from. You have no way to know about that relationship by simple > inspection, and is not discoverable by current tooling either. So I also > believe that it would be useful to at least be able to list them. One place > where this becomes painful is in bootstrap chains. Yes, exactly that. :-) > Do you think this can be achieved somehow without complicating implementation? Maybe grouping all the packages with the same 'origin'. It should possible, isn't it? Cheers, simon
