Re: Should updaters suggest changes to inputs?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 2016-09-12 08:45, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> one problem that I’ve stumbled upon with R packages is that new
>> versions
>> occasionally depend on new inputs.  “guix refresh -u” updates the
>> version number and the hash for me, but it doesn’t tell me that new
>> inputs are needed — or that existing inputs have been dropped —
>> according to upstream’s DESCRIPTION file.
>>
>> Usually, these things become obvious when I rebuild all updated
>> packages, but it’s possible I miss something.
>>
>> Do you think “guix refresh” should also mention changes to inputs?
>
> I think it would be nice.  Similar things happen for Perl packages.

+1.  It may also be possible for ‘guix refresh -u’ to update the
‘inputs’ field (using the ‘edit-expression’ procedure that 宋文武 added
a while back.)

Ludo’.