Hi Saku,

Am Freitag, dem 08.12.2023 um 10:42 +0200 schrieb Saku Laesvuori:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm planning on refreshing Guix's haskell packages as my fix for
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66347 requires rebuilding all of them
> anyway. Should I try to keep commits small with only one update per
> commit (which is more work but managable if I don't care about the
> commits being buildable) or should I try to keep them buildable (i.e.
> update everything in one commit)? It is quite certain that most of
> them will not build after updating ghc or a subset of their
> dependencies, so making many small commits would cause nearly all of
> them to be unbuildable.
Define "buildable" and "unbuildable".  Depending on the context, it may
be fine or even required to break dependant packages for a short while
and update them along a longer series.  However, in each commit at
least the package touched in that commit ought to build.

Cheers

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