On Mon, 30 May 2022 19:36:12 +0530 Winter Hound <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps you may already know this > > > > ss > > ;; Defining a dummy package that is common to all > I;; Taking fields that are common. > > Having multiple versions of the same package is convenient. Why > isnt Guix has similar ? I know there inferior but having multiple > versions in the same file would benefit right ? My guess is it's because maintaining multiple version of a package is a debugging and security nightmare. Fixing packages so that they can use the latest version of a dependency is much more worthy of maintainer efforts. If you need to use a specific tag or commit so that you can compare different versions of a package or something, package transformations let you do that.
