Re: Fwd: 03/03: sort haskell-xyz

[Mark H Weaver]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden writes:
>
>> rob pushed a commit to branch wip-haskell-updates
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit e88776b829391b941ebcbc55a0fd7104c51c4992
>> Author: Robert Vollmert <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Thu Aug 15 00:06:20 2019 +0200
>>
>>     sort haskell-xyz
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm | 16003 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>  1 file changed, 8003 insertions(+), 8000 deletions(-)
>
> I would advise against this kind of change.  It affects a lot of
> packages (which muddies the git log) but really has very little benefit.
> An alphabetic ordering is not necessarily better than a historical
> ordering or a topological ordering.

It's also likely to make merges between branches painful.

       Mark