Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> writes:
> Aside: I wish that Guix included a convenient tool to answer the
> question "Why does package X depend on package Y?", i.e. "What paths of
> dependencies lead from package X to package Y?", without having to view
> the entire dependency graph (which is often too complex to grasp
> visually).
We have “guix graph --path from to”, but frustratingly it won’t cover
build system packages, so
guix graph --path emacs rust
will tell us that there is no path from emacs to rust, even though there
is a path via librsvg, which uses rust through the cargo-build-system.
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Ricardo
