Andreas Enge (2014-10-30 15:38 +0300) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 03:31:15PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >> I think the latter is a bug. IMHO it shouldn't be possible to install >> several packages with the same name in one profile. > > Well, having python 2 and 3 is reasonable, and from what I saw in their > naming scheme, it is entirely possible (the python binary being renamed > to python 3). Qt 4 and 5 are, I think, another case. How about GTK+ 2 and 3? > > Of course we could rename the packages, but this is not our policy so far.
Actually I thought it was the policy. I asked about that: search for "intended" at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-08/msg00047.html>. Such behavior is handled by ‘manifest-add’ currently. Before that this code was placed in “guix/scripts/package.scm” and it was there for a I-don't-know-how-long time. -- Alex
