Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
On Thu, Feb 27 2025, Leo Famulari wrote:
I always recommend against using inheritance
Yes, it's like a disease! Please make the use of inheritance
illegal in
package declarations except in approved cases.
I don't know why this topic elicits strong emotions. "disease"
and
"illegal" are very weird word choices; I don't think that's
helpful here.
@Tanguy
Even though you may feel pressured to write a verbose version of
this
package variant after reading the messages here, I think it's a
perfectly situation for inheritance. There is nothing wrong with
use of
inheritance for closely related package variants, such as
python-3.12
and python-3.13. Only one of these versions will eventually
remain, so
one replaces the other in the long run.
If you want I can take a closer look at why your particular
approach
wasn't working.
--
Ricardo
