Hi, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Arne & Efraim, > > efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 09:54:07AM +0200, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> When I get conflicts in propagated imports, I must follow a mechanical >>> multi-step process to resolve them manually. > > [...] > >>> LANG=C guix package -i guile-gi python-pycairo dbus-glib cairo >>> guile-charting libsoup poppler pango >>> The following packages will be upgraded: >>> python-pycairo (dependencies or package changed) >>> dbus-glib (dependencies or package changed) >>> cairo (dependencies or package changed) >>> guile-charting (dependencies or package changed) >>> libsoup (dependencies or package changed) >>> poppler (dependencies or package changed) >>> pango (dependencies or package changed) >>> >>> The following package will be installed: >>> guile-gi 0.3.0 >>> >>> guix package: error: profile contains conflicting entries for glib >>> guix package: error: first entry: glib@2.62.6 >>> /gnu/store/xr6zfqxklmr7skalljn5i071xmgqxbrm-glib-2.62.6 >>> guix package: error: ... propagated from cairo@1.16.0 >>> guix package: error: ... propagated from pango@1.44.7 >>> guix package: error: second entry: glib@2.62.6 >>> /gnu/store/q4100sjqcsdi6b232ndr93vxfzv9bzij-glib-2.62.6 >>> guix package: error: ... propagated from libnotify@0.7.7 >>> >>> >>> This should be automated, so there would be just one step to add all >>> updates I need. [...] > Also, Arne, it seems to me that Guix alone cannot decide how to solve > that conflict; it’s up to the user. Thoughts? I guess it could compute all the conflicts and then fail and show the results, so that the user wouldn't need to slowly iterate on its per-package findings; perhaps recommend to simply upgrade wholesale when the conflicts are too numerous? Perhaps it could even *already* make such a recommendation when encountering conflicts, e.g. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- hint: To avoid conflicts, you can upgrade all of your package collection at once with 'guix upgrade'. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Is this worth it? Maxim
