Hi Guix, I've been trying to properly use the notion of patches above a channel, and there are actually ways to make that work thanks to b4's reproducible preprocessing of patch series / patchsets. I know about the wget help we know have on guix, but my point is broader here, I wanted to have a tool for multiple channels, unregarding of the forge they are using (sourcehut in particular works).
I seems quite doable to integrate this in main guix, but I'm not sure guix developpers would be intersted in that, in which case I'll probably put that in a new channel, with a <patched-source> record or something like that. I think this could be of great value to any user that has trouble getting some essential things merged into a project, but that still values the reproducibility of what he does, without having its own guix fork online (environmental reasons). My current use-case can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~ngraves/dotfiles/tree/main/item/channels.scm -- Best regards, Nicolas Graves
