Eric Bavier <ericbav...@openmailbox.org> skribis: > On 2016-09-12 08:45, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Hi Guix, >> >> one problem that I’ve stumbled upon with R packages is that new >> versions >> occasionally depend on new inputs. “guix refresh -u” updates the >> version number and the hash for me, but it doesn’t tell me that new >> inputs are needed — or that existing inputs have been dropped — >> according to upstream’s DESCRIPTION file. >> >> Usually, these things become obvious when I rebuild all updated >> packages, but it’s possible I miss something. >> >> Do you think “guix refresh” should also mention changes to inputs? > > I think it would be nice. Similar things happen for Perl packages.
+1. It may also be possible for ‘guix refresh -u’ to update the ‘inputs’ field (using the ‘edit-expression’ procedure that 宋文武 added a while back.) Ludo’.
