bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> writes:

>>Yes, and I think we’ll close it as “wontfix”.  :-)
>
> May I ask why? It seems it'd be ideal if packages got upgraded only when 
> needed; the false upgrades pollute the output of an upgrade and makes it less 
> useful.

It also generates spurious generations.
Last but not least, it makes it hard to the user to know when something
actually needs to be updated.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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