Re: Dealing with common collisions in profiles

[Pjotr Prins]

How do we disable the message? I get pages and pages of collisions by
now.

warning: arbitrarily choosing 
/gnu/store/z4pvymzvvk8mlsry6gf04z40ij537aj4-gcc-toolchain-5.1.0/include/linux/ipv6.h
warning: collision encountered: 
/gnu/store/z4pvymzvvk8mlsry6gf04z40ij537aj4-gcc-toolchain-5.1.0/include/linux/if_arp.h
 
/gnu/store/ykdxi4y2caa9v8hi55fr2slpx2kdwpb9-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8/include/linux/if_arp.h
 


On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 10:53:45PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> You’ve probably noticed that as soon as there’s a non-negligible number
> of packages in a profile, there are collisions.  It’s really harmless,
> but seriously annoying.  Here’s a collection of those I get:
> 
>   share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
>   share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
>   lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
>   lib/perl5/5.16.1/x86_64-linux/perllocal.pod
> 
> Federico, I know ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ builds the first 3 items on
> purpose, but what do you think can be done about them?  At worst we
> could always change (guix build profiles) to not report collisions for
> those.
> 
> The .pod files are used by ‘perldoc’ IIUC.  What can be done about them?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 

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