Hello,
Hi,
On dim., 12 févr. 2023 at 01:14, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> There is an idea to update guix refresh --list-dependent to handle the
>> case with inherited packages as well. WDYT?
>
> Unfortunately, it’s not possible because inheritance info isn’t
> available at run time.
My idea here was to rescan the source with a minimal scanner and build up an inheritance aware dependency graph. We could then make this information available in some way, but about that part I did not think about too much yet.
Another thing that could possibly work is to enrich the package with inheritance information, but I am not sure that this can be done in a backwards compatible way. Wdyt?
Well, with the current implementation of ’inherit’, which is just
copy/paste at the record level, indeed it is not possible to detect some
relationship.
However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant
instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages. Doing
so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’,
which could be used then by --list-dependent.
Many of us are bitten by this. I remember a recent update of Git which
also missed the dependency of git-minimal. :-)
For sure, QA helps a lot. Somehow, braces and belt. ;-)
Cheers,
simon
Regards,
g_bor