Hi, Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis:
> On dim., 12 févr. 2023 at 01:14, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > >>> There is an idea to update guix refresh --list-dependent to handle the >>> case with inherited packages as well. WDYT? >> >> Unfortunately, it’s not possible because inheritance info isn’t >> available at run time. > > Well, with the current implementation of ’inherit’, which is just > copy/paste at the record level, indeed it is not possible to detect some > relationship. > > However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant > instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages. Doing > so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’, > which could be used then by --list-dependent. In effect that means keeping back the chain of inherited objects, which would lead to space leaks. > Many of us are bitten by this. I remember a recent update of Git which > also missed the dependency of git-minimal. :-) I agree it’d be nice to solve. I can’t think of a good way to do that though. Thoughts? Ludo’.
