GNU bug report logs - #31870
Provide a way to customize %harmless-collisions

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>

Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 07:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 31870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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