Re: Rebuilding a package after removing a build step

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hi Simon,

>> Unfortunately, when there are several packages with identical name and
>> version number in two channels, Guix silently chooses one of them.
>
> Choose when doing what? :-)

Building, installing, ... whatever you can do with a package.

> When running “guix shell” or “guix package”, it should warn.  It
> doesn’t?  Ah?  I thought it does…  Hum?

It doesn't.

> When packaging, you choose: you use one module or the other, or both.

Right, at the level of Guile code, there is no problem. It's the lookup
by name/version at the command line that doesn't let me choose nor tells
me that there is a need to choose.

Cheers,
  Konrad.