Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com> writes:
Could you, Luis, in a new version of the patch add an asterisk that
preserving likely will work but not always and we cannot guarantee this
yet? Cc to others for opinions.
Sure. I'll wait for other's opinions to see how to rewrite that part.
When I presented the proposal, Simon had suggested changing that
particular part to "Get the same environment in the future"
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-10/msg00137.html). Maybe
that would be enough?
I had read the thread; but somehow missed Simon’s comment... Yes, if
that rewording makes Simon happy already, we can do that.
However, writing “in the future“ (or just removing the word 50 from “50
years later”) could lead to misconceptions. There are concrete bugs
hindering near-term reproducibility for some packages (e.g. those using
mercurial) [1].
Soo ... add an ugly asterisk saying “*currently only guaranteed for most
packages“?
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