bug#33137: [Wishlist] recursive guix lint

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 03:31:32PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > We have the linter check for CVEs and updates to packages in a list, but
>> > what about those packages they depend on? It would be great to be able
>> > to 'guix lint --recursive foo' and get foo and also all the packages in
>> > the different types of inputs.
>> 
>> On the question of CVEs, see also
>> <https://issues.guix.info/issue/31442>.
>> 
>> Do you think --recursive would be useful for other types of linters?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> Checking for new versions would definately be good.

But that’s what ‘guix refresh’ does, right?

> It seems to me that checking everything would make for better code
> overall, but the behavior I would expect is that it would check all
> the linters specified in the command.

If you run ‘guix lint’ without any arguments, all the packages are
checked.  Is this what you meant?

Thanks,
Ludo’.