On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 11:32, Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> wrote: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> > (Note: we should remove the ‘sort’ call here as the order of packages in > > the manifest is significant when there are file collisions.) > > But the export is not an "internal manifest", it should not need to know > about package order, right? > > I sorted the export so that it produces a reproducible output, which is > more version-control friendly. IMHO, the sort would not be too expensive; even on all the packages that Guix already includes now. ;-) So, it does not matter too much, I guess. However, the manifest returned is not necessary functional because the pkg1@v1 and pkg2@v2 are not necessary provided by the same commit. Therefore we could imagine "options" to the '--export' command, as '--export=full' or '--export=light' etc. And even '--export=sorted' and maybe combined as '--export=light,sorted'. Cheers, simon
