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bug#42595: conflicts in propagated imports must be resolved manually


From: Luis Felipe
Subject: bug#42595: conflicts in propagated imports must be resolved manually
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 23:50:58 +0000

I get this problem from time to time in my user profile, and it is really 
annoying because doing what the hint says rarely fixes the problem easily. If 
you follow the hint, you end up wasting a lot of time when you get into that 
loop of "hint: Try upgrading both `PACKAGE_I_WANT_TO_INSTALL' and 
`SOME_PACKAGE_IN_THE_PROFILE', or remove one of them from the profile."

I always forget that the solution is to upgrade all packages in the profile. So 
maybe the hint should suggest that instead?

So it seems I always get into this problem because I use "guix install PACKAGE" 
and also "guix upgrade SINGLE_PACKAGE", as I don't always have the time to 
upgrade the whole profile (which contains almost 100 packages, some of which 
may have no substitutes and may also have a failing phase, which can result in 
more wasted time).

I'll need to build the habit of using the declarative approach instead to 
modify my profile, as Mark Weaver suggests in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/37940 
(which, by the way, seems like a duplicate of this issue).

> Also, Arne, it seems to me that Guix alone cannot decide how to solve that 
> conflict; it’s up to the user.

That's understandable but unsatisfying :)





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