Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Maxim, > > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> (define-public patch >> (package >> + (replacement patch/fixed) > > Unless I’m mistaken, this will have practically no effect because Patch > is a build-time-only dependency. > > My recommendation would be to not add a ‘replacement’ field at all. > Instead, you could add a new ‘patch/latest’ public variable pointing to > that commit that you picked. That way, users running ‘guix install > patch’ or similar will get the latest version of Patch. I see what you mean, but for all practical purposes, using a graft seems a more thorough (because it affects the original 'patch' *variable* as well) means that have the same effect for users, so I'd seems like a slightly better option to me. So e.g. someone using the Guix API referencing exactly to the 'patch' package variable would get a secure version, but would otherwise need to know to adjust their code to use 'patch/latest'. Does that make sense? -- Thanks, Maxim
