Re: Order of manifest and overlapping binaries

[Attila Lendvai]

> 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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