Hi, Andrew Tropin <and...@trop.in> skribis:
> On 2023-02-11 16:35, Andrew Tropin wrote: [...] >>> The change to guix-emacs.el is pretty impactful here since that affects >>> all the emacs packages including emacs-minimal I think. >>> >>> If I've understood your comment correctly, that does seem pretty >>> wasteful since those rebuilds because of the changed emacs-minimal won't >>> have any affect since it's version 28 and not 29, right? I think >>> applying this change to just emacs-next would have been possible. >> >> It could be applied to emacs-next only and we could move it to emacs >> later when it updated to 29, but I checked guix refresh --list-dependent >> emacs and it shown less than 100 packages so I decided to apply it >> straight to emacs, but I forgot that emacs-minimal is inherited from >> emacs and I guess you are right and it will affect all the emacs >> packages. Anything we would like to do about it right now? > > Let's keep it as it is and I'll store it in mind for the next time. Right. > 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. However, peer review and <https://qa.guix.gnu.org> should be able to catch it. No big deal, but next time we’ll know. Thanks, Ludo’.
