Re: Should updaters suggest changes to inputs?

[Eric Bavier]

On 2016-09-12 08:45, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
>
> one problem that I’ve stumbled upon with R packages is that new 
> versions
> occasionally depend on new inputs.  “guix refresh -u” updates the
> version number and the hash for me, but it doesn’t tell me that new
> inputs are needed — or that existing inputs have been dropped —
> according to upstream’s DESCRIPTION file.
>
> Usually, these things become obvious when I rebuild all updated
> packages, but it’s possible I miss something.
>
> Do you think “guix refresh” should also mention changes to inputs?

I think it would be nice.  Similar things happen for Perl packages.

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`~Eric