Re: About "collision encountered"

[David Thompson]

Feng Shu <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Feng Shu writes:
>>
>>> I build a emacs-snapshot package, it seem conflict with emacs package,
>>> how to deal with the situation?
>>
>> You can choose to install the conflicting package into a separate
>> profile by passing "-p /path/to/my-other-profile" to "guix package".  It
>> will create a new profile in "/path/to/my-other-profile" and you can run
>> your emacs-snapshot binaries like so:
>>
>>     /path/to/my-other-profile/bin/emacs
>
> I suggest add a feature, which can detect the underline conflicts. when
> conflicts found, ask user type "yes" or "no".

We can't do that, as it would be non-deterministic.  If you want to use
2 versions of the same package, an additional profile is the right way
to go.  This is why we have profiles in the first place. :)

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David Thompson
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