Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Getting rid of input labels?

[Maxime Devos]

Ludovic Courtès schreef op do 20-05-2021 om 16:58 [+0200]:
> Hello Guix!
> 
> Here’s a proposal for a soft revolution: getting rid of input labels
> in package definitions.  Instead of writing: [...]
>    
> one can write:
> 
>     (native-inputs (list autoconf automake pkg-config guile-3.0))
> [...]

This concept LGTM (but I haven't looked closely at the patches), but
as noted on #guix, some issues with eliminating labels completely:

A package definition of P may require both Q@1.0 and Q@2.0 as inputs,
in which case a ‘label collision’ would be created if we generate
labels package-name. More specifically, I'm thinking of packaging
go-ipfs-migrations (or what's its name ...). It would be a good idea
to add an (additional?) test to actually try to migrate from
go-ipfs@first-version to go-ipfs@another-version.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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