Re: Duplicate package variables

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 01:10:04AM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>      Guix, John,
>      
>      On 02/03/17 18:02, John Darrington wrote:
>      > commit f1021afb41613f5eba3ea4f5225b9a4cd1c15ecb
>      > Author: John Darrington <address@hidden>
>      > Date:   Thu Mar 2 17:57:25 2017 +0100
>      > 
>      >     gnu: Merge the two stellaria into one.
>      
>      Nicely caught.
>
> Danny Milosavljevic made me aware of this.  So credit goes to him.
>
> But yeah, I wondered why I didn't get an error or at least a warning
> after I had added a second package with the same name as an existing 
> one.  Not even lint complained.

The UI (e.g., “guix build stellarium”) emits a warning when referring to
a package that has two instances with the same name and version number.

Ludo’.