Re: rust (build system) deficits

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi John,

> > This importer does not solve the declarations, and IMHO it should not
> > anyway - as the are dependencies of another packages, which might change over time.
> >
> >       
>

I’m not sure I fully understand why the recursive importer should not solve the transitive dependencies. Could you elaborate further?

If you are suggesting that guix refresh won’t pick up the changes, then I think agree with you. That I believe is an artifact of using arguments rather than inputs to specify dependencies.

I was talking about `guix import crates -r`, which - like `guix refresh` - shall not add transitive dependencies to #crate-inputs.

But I would expect the build-system to transitivly resolve #crate-inputs as well as #crate-development inputs.

> The importer does solve the transitive dependencies but there is a bug. Version numbers of cargo dependencies are not used which can sometimes cause the problem you describe. I really hope the fixes get merged soon because it is a real pain.
>     
    Are you talking about "guix import crates" here, too?
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Hartmut Goebel

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