Re: On the quest for a new release model

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:

>> Also you would need some way to specify what channel commits are able to
>> work together version-wise.
>
> Let's say we have two channels in the future: $guix-slim and
> $guix-extras.  Wouldn't it be sufficient for $guix-extras to depend on
> $guix-slim ?  If not, could you please elaborate?

You have multiplied the release problem by two.

guix-slim and guix-extras would both need to be versioned somehow, so
that whatever packages and Guix library infrastructure guix-extras needs
are in fact provided by the version of guix-slim.

I strongly advise not to go down this route.  See also my other email on
why it is not practical; feel free to search the archives for prior
discussions.

-- 
Ricardo