[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > What about this other option: make another public package, ‘file-5.20’, > next to ‘file’, such that when a user explicitly installs ‘file’, they > get the new one?
I ended up taking that route, in commit 310081e. The replacement caused too much churn on Hydra. Furthermore, it led to a serious increase in the installation image size, because several variants of a number of packages were present, and because ‘guix-register -p’ doesn’t deduplicate things. Ludo’.
