Am Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 09:16:54PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Enge:
> Right now I am working on updates where "guix build -P 1 updated-package"
> fails before and after the update; and I wonder whether to update or not.
PS: This also gives an example where it would be helpful to remove
building, but outdated software, such as multiple versions.
We have four different versions of ffmpeg in Guix (after I removed
the one which became obsolete in 2016 this April).
The package updated in #1080 has ffmpeg as a direct, -P1 dependent;
so in order to be able to apply the patch to a branch, I have to
build four different versions of ffmpeg.
PPS: Unless we decide that it does not matter if any but the most
recent version of ffmpeg continues to build; I tend to consider
this a reasonable choice.
