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Re: guix refresh --update Removes Needed Dependencies
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: guix refresh --update Removes Needed Dependencies |
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Thu, 23 Nov 2023 09:08:43 +0200 |
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:45:48PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi jgart,
>
> "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> skribis:
>
> > ./pre-inst-env guix refresh --update python-sphinx
>
> [...]
>
> > - ;; The Sphinx LaTeX library '\RequirePackage' or \\usepackage
> > - ;; these:
> > - texlive-amsfonts ;amsmath, amssymb, amstext
> > - texlive-amsmath
> > - texlive-capt-of
> > - texlive-carlisle ;remreset
>
> To avoid this problem one can add package properties such as
> ‘updater-extra-native-inputs’ in this case:
>
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-refresh.html#index-updater_002dextra_002dinputs_002c-package-property
>
> However, the way it’s implemented right now, you have to list the name
> of every input that should be preserved by ‘guix refresh -u’, which is
> inconvenient in this particular case because there are many of them.
>
> I can think of two ways to improve on that:
>
> 1. Use one of the ‘texlive-scheme-*’ packages instead of this long
> list. :-)
>
> 2. Change the code to interpret extra inputs are regexps instead of
> names.
I like both ideas
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