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Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests


From: Pierre Neidhardt
Subject: Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:49:24 +0200

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> writes:

>> Even better: what high-level functions to manipulate manifests, such as
>> "manifest-union", "manifest-difference"?
>
> Union is OK, difference isn't. A manifest is not just any set of 
> packages, it's a set of packages that has no dependencies outside of the 
> set.

A manifest as a package list, as you hinted, does not include the
dependencies.  Then the difference makes sense.  Although I'm not too
sure of a practical use case.  Anyone? 

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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