Re: Duplicate package variables

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 08/03/17 18:11, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hm. Are you sure?
>
> I've seen it do so when there are in fact multiple instances (i.e.
> distinct variables), but not when the same variable is re-bound:
>
>   ~/guix $ git checkout 9baab9aeeda394408290613c597bff1d96004dfb
>   ~/guix $ ./pre-inst-env guix build ruby-arel r-gtable r-codetools
>
> produces no such warning for me.

Oh right, if there’s just one variable, then there are no warnings.
Sorry for the confusion.

Ludo’.