bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Shall we open a new bug?
>>
>> Yes, and I think we’ll close it as “wontfix”.  :-)
>
> Hmm?  Why?

At first sight, to me, it’s not entirely clear how to determine whether
something is to be upgraded in the presence of propagated inputs.

And more importantly, I think the “imperative” model is necessarily not
as expressive and “clean” as ‘--manifest’.  There are tradeoffs to make.

In short, if we can fix it, that’s great; but otherwise I wouldn’t lose
my hair over it.

I hope that makes sense!

Ludo’.