Re: [PATCH 01/26] gnu: Add perl-file-pushd.

[Ben Woodcroft]

Hi,


On 24/03/17 18:13, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> Hi Kei,
>
> Kei Kebreau writes:
>
> > This series of packages builds and lints fine for me. There are over 200
> > dependent packages that would have to be rebuilt though, and
> > core-updates is frozen to my knowledge. We can save this for the next
> > core-updates cycle, though!
> >
> > Other Guix users, please correct me if I'm wrong.
According to the established guidelines, this should be OK for master 
since it affects <300 packages, so if all dependent packages build then 
I don't see why we shouldn't do that.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00933.html

> Thanks for the review!
>
> What command do you use to check the number of packages that would have
> to be rebuilt?  I'm asking, because if they are mainly perl libraries
> then that figure of 200 really isn't that big of a deal: most perl libs
> build super fast.
To check the number of packages use "guix refresh -l"

Thanks for the update patches,
ben