bug#22139: Indirect dependencies are not grafted

2016-02-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > The grafting mechanism has a shortcoming: it is not recursive. > > Suppose we use ‘replace’ to provide a patch libpng. If a package has a > direct dependency on libpng, it is appropriately grafted to refer to the > new libpng. However, if a package

bug#22139: Indirect dependencies are not grafted

2016-02-17 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Mark Weaver laid out a plan that he thinks would work on IRC a couple of years ago, and referenced it yesterday on #guix. Here it is: https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2014-09-25#T480219 Some further conversation: https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2014-10-27#T502706