Re: guix lint should support overrides

[Felix Lechner]

Hi all,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 3:23 PM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Debian's correlary, lintian, has a mechanism to do exactly this, where
> you list the various things that aren't appropriate, and can even
> comment on why, in a way that lintian basically hides the issue from
> further attention.

Overrides would also offer a benefit to 'guix lint' maintainers! A
large proportion of overrides relative to the total incidence suggests
the heuristics should be tuned to reduce nuisance, if possible.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner