On Wed, Jul 08 2020, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Couldn't Guix be smarter about this? Or at least provide a less puzzling > message.
This was brought up when we originally implemented upgrading of services on a live system. The discussion about this starts in an email from Ludovic[1], and proceeds from there (although you'll have to skip over some other unrelated conversations). There are definitely ways that things can be improved. I made an attempt at doing this at the end of 2018[2], but that didn't result in anything being merged into Guix. I don't think we've yet settled on an approach for how to resolve this (and the related issue of automatically upgrading services). Carlo [1]: https://issues.guix.info/22039#11 [2]: https://issues.guix.info/33508
