Hi, On dim., 12 févr. 2023 at 01:14, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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. Well, with the current implementation of ’inherit’, which is just copy/paste at the record level, indeed it is not possible to detect some relationship. However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages. Doing so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’, which could be used then by --list-dependent. Many of us are bitten by this. I remember a recent update of Git which also missed the dependency of git-minimal. :-) For sure, QA helps a lot. Somehow, braces and belt. ;-) Cheers, simon
