Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
> Hi Guix, > > when using package transformations the command line can become crowded > very quickly. Sometimes I would like to be able to provide a file > containing a set of alternative packages that are used recursively in > the package dependency graph, as some sort of override. > > What do you think about extending package transformations to allow for > reading override packages from a file? The replacements would happen by > matching package names, so a package named “python-pytorch” in my > overrides file would replace the original “python-pytorch” package in > the input graph. All these packages would be applied as overrides > together. Would you not be better off using a manifest in this case, using the Guix API to apply the transformations? -- Thanks, Maxim
