Liam Hupfer <l...@hpfr.net> writes:
Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
My work on Guix is dominated by bulk upgrades of hundreds of R
packages. There is no point in submitting the upgrades
individually. In fact, my work on Guix has become so dominated
by
R upgrades that I barely ever get to do much else. This means
I’m
unlikely to review more contributions and increased friction in
performing these massive upgrades would only make it less
likely
that I can perform them at all.
What if the CRAN packages lived in a separate channel?
The remaining R packages live in separate channels that have no
quality control: guix-cran and guix-bioc.
What is available in Guix proper does have quality control and
these updates require significant work to ensure that the packages
remain usable. Don't let the number of commits fool you: my
contributions to R packages in Guix are not the results of just
running a script and calling it a day.
--
Ricardo
