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Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions

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From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:10:06 +0200

Hi,

%harmless-collisions is consistent for Guix packages, but users can also
add their custom packages through GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.  It would be great
that if such custom packages collide, the warning message can be
removed.

Thanks,
Clément

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
Cc: 31870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31870: Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:17:00 +0200

Hello,

Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:

> %harmless-collisions is consistent for Guix packages, but users can also
> add their custom packages through GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.  It would be great
> that if such custom packages collide, the warning message can be
> removed.

‘%harmless-collisions’ is really a hack and I’m not sure we’d like to
make this hack extensible.  :-)

Did you have any concrete use case in mind?

Ludo’.

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From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31870: Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:49:14 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> %harmless-collisions is consistent for Guix packages, but users can also
>> add their custom packages through GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.  It would be great
>> that if such custom packages collide, the warning message can be
>> removed.
>
> ‘%harmless-collisions’ is really a hack and I’m not sure we’d like to
> make this hack extensible.  :-)

Ha ;-)  Okay I understand.

> Did you have any concrete use case in mind?

Yes, Firefox and Icecat have lots of collisions, and they are displayed
even when I install unrelated stuff.  But it's fine, I can definitely
live with it.  Closing it!

Clément

Message #16 received at 31870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
Cc: 31870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31870: Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:33:46 +0200

Hello Clément,

Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> Did you have any concrete use case in mind?
>
> Yes, Firefox and Icecat have lots of collisions, and they are displayed
> even when I install unrelated stuff.  But it's fine, I can definitely
> live with it.  Closing it!

I have IceCat installed but I don’t remember seeing collision warnings
coming specifically from it.  Do you have them around, out of curiosity?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #19 received at 31870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31870: Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:46:10 +0200

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Good morning, Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Clément,
>
> Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Did you have any concrete use case in mind?
>>
>> Yes, Firefox and Icecat have lots of collisions, and they are displayed
>> even when I install unrelated stuff.  But it's fine, I can definitely
>> live with it.  Closing it!
>
> I have IceCat installed but I don’t remember seeing collision warnings
> coming specifically from it.  Do you have them around, out of curiosity?

I meant that Firefox collides with Icecat (and with gtk-icon-themes).
That was the beginning of the output but I now realize that the other
ones are probably unrelated.

Log attached.

Thanks,
Clément

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Message #22 received at 31870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
Cc: 31870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31870: Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:51:22 +0200

Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> I have IceCat installed but I don’t remember seeing collision warnings
>> coming specifically from it.  Do you have them around, out of curiosity?
>
> I meant that Firefox collides with Icecat (and with gtk-icon-themes).
> That was the beginning of the output but I now realize that the other
> ones are probably unrelated.

That having both Firefox and IceCat in the same profile leads to
collision is not surprising, so I don’t think there’s much to do here.

The gtk-icon-themes and MIME collisions may be something to add to
‘%harmless-collisions’ though, because at least some of them are
expected and harmless, I think.

Ludo’.

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