Can I ask, would it be helpful to alphabetize the packages in ruby.scm,
at least vaguely? Always adding new packages to the bottom of the file
causes git merge conflicts I would imagine. Of course, it would be even
more helpful if guix import put them in the right spot too, but that
seems harder.
I’m also fighting with merge conflicts somewhat regularly, e.g. when
editing some heavily edited file like the huge python.scm. I avoid much
of the problems by adding my packages somewhere to the middle in
alphabetic order. I do not do this when I have patch sequences where
the latter depend on the former.
Ordering package variables in ruby.scm doesn’t seem very useful to me.
More could be gained, I suppose, by using a sexp-aware diff algorithm.