Am Freitag, dem 04.11.2022 um 10:20 +0100 schrieb zimoun: > Hi Liliana, > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2022 at 21:59, Liliana Marie Prikler > <liliana.prik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The pauper's > > solution would be to keep a separate "scratch pad" file containing > > a bunch of assorted guix packages, ordered in a way that all > > packages are defined before they're used as inputs – you can easily > > maintain this order by insertion sort. > > I did something similar that for some Julia packages, but it can be > tedious depending on the number of packages. Well, it could be cool > to have something like > > guix graph -m some-packages.scm --sort > > returning the list of packages sorted (topological order). Sorting packages in files sounds like a good application for guix style imho. We might even want different orders like topological or alphabetical. Guix graph can aid in that, but it'd return a graph rather than the raw package code.
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