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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add glibc-locales variants for older versions of glibc.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add glibc-locales variants for older versions of glibc. |
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Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:54:52 +0100 |
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Hi Ludo,
>> * gnu/packages/base.scm (make-glibc-locales, make-glibc-utf8-locales): New
>> procedures.
>> (glibc-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-locales.
>> (glibc-utf8-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-utf8-locales.
>> (glibc-locales-2.27, glibc-utf8-locales-2.27): New variables.
[…]
> I don’t like the package name trick, but I don’t have a better solution.
> Perhaps we could have a special property to explicitly allow for several
> versions of this package in the same profile (say
> ‘allow-multiple-versions?’), but that’s a bit more work.
I also don’t like to work around this by changing the package names. I
thought of allowing multiple versions via property, but it’s not clear
how it should behave. I’d want to have only major versions appear as
non-conflicting and still prevent the installation of variants of the
same version.
The next question then is if the property should be a procedure that
takes the current and the potentially conflicting package as arguments
and decides whether they are conflicting, or if this should be handled
centrally when the property is present.
--
Ricardo