No, this is not a bug. specification->package always returns the latest version of a package and has no way of knowing what variable(s) that package object is bound to.
On April 21, 2024 8:02:50 AM PDT, Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> wrote: >Hi, > >On Sat, Apr 20 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > >> If an operating-system’s packages includes `(specification->package >> "nss-certs")', this causes breakage, because that form selects version >> 3.98, but %base-packages includes 3.88.1, which causes an error on the >> next `guix system reconfigure' due to conflicting package versions in >> the profile. > >Why does the unversioned stringy selector (specification->package >"nss-certs") resolve to a version different from the unversioned >variable nss-certs? Is that a bug? > >Kind regards >Felix > >P.S. I hoped to use the word "reified" but did not know how it fit in. Thanks, — Ian
