Re: GnuPG in Guix

[Andreas Enge]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:59:05AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> On Debian and its derivatives (which include both Trisquel and
> gNewSense), gnupg-1.4 and gnupg-2.0 have different package names, not
> just different version numbers.  I think that perhaps we should do the
> same.

Well, that is a different design decision in debian, because I think their
package manager does not allow to install two versions of a package with
the same name at the same time. In guix, I can issue without problem
   guix package -i qt-4.8.6 qt

The argument of incompatible changes would hold for almost everything,
since usually libfoo-x.y.z is incompatible with libfoo-a.b.c for x>a.

Andreas