Re: Order of manifest and overlapping binaries

[John Kehayias]

See also https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58859 and linked issues (some already mentioned and most authors on this thread are involved in some/all of these issue reports). I think this all points to the need for some fixes and/or clarity here for the user.

(apologies for the top post and formatting while I'm away from a proper computer)
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On May 17, 2023, 4:23 AM, Attila Lendvai < attila@lendvai.name> wrote:
> > I could not find documentation on this circumstance or how to resolve.
> > Both 'parallel' and 'moreutils' produce a 'bin/parallel' and only one
> > can go in the $GUIX_PROFILE.
>
>
> i have proposed a solution for a special case of this problem: to do alphanumeric sorting, which together with semantic versioning picks the latest from the collisions of different versions of the same package.
>
> see: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50878#12
>
> the cleanup commits reached master by now, but the actual change of the semantics of the union has not. it needs to be revived/rebased.
>
> in its current form it wouldn't help in your case, but it points to the relevant part of the codebase.
>
> HTH,
>
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