Matthew Flatt writes: > At Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:01:36 -0500, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: >> I'm guessing it's probably due to these error messages: >> >> $ raco pkg update --scope user --clone scribble-lib >> Inferred package name from given `--clone' path >> package: scribble-lib >> given path: scribble-lib >> raco pkg update: package installed in a different scope >> package: scribble-lib >> current scope: user >> installed in scope: installation > > The right way to avoid this message in you case is likely to specify > the same scope as the starting "scribble" copy, which is installation > scope, via `-i`. > >> I see that I can make it happen using the following steps: >> >> cwebber@twig:~/devel/scribble/scribble-lib$ raco pkg install --force >> [...] >> >> I know you've warned me I don't want to do install --force though. :) >> >> Though... now I've done it for all of the Scribble sub-packages, and >> things seem to work now... >> >> Might I ask why I shouldn't do the thing I've just done then? > > Your installation is now in a state where some packages that depend on > "scribble" are built against the installation-wide copy, while others > are (or will become as you run `raco setup` or more package commands) > built with your user-specific copy. > > As long as your work as the same user, and as long as you don't run > anything that constraints effects to installation scope, then it might > all work... until it doesn't. Fundamentally, `raco setup` is not > designed to support dependencies that go backward from installation > scope to user scope, and so it doesn't make that work reliably. > > Most likely, the installation is really all your own, and not > multi-user. In that case, you should just work at the level of the > installation to avoid a mismatch. > > > Matthew
I see. That's a good explaination. Also all the more motivation to support Guix-based Racket development... :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/87o8kb4mpz.fsf%40dustycloud.org.
