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[Wishlist] recursive guix lint

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33137: [Wishlist] recursive guix lint
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:57:38 +0200

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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 07:13:48PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > I meant more like "hey, khard can be upgraded to 0.12.2, after I've
> > checked the upgrade with 'guix lint khard', now I'd like to check the rest
> > of the dependency tree with 'guix lint --recursive khard' to see if
> > anything else can be upgraded or has any linter errors."
> 
> Oh I see.  So to me this would be a ‘guix refresh’ feature rather than
> ‘guix lint’, but I agree it would be nice (and not too hard to
> implement.)
> 
I think ultimately implementing it in both would be good, but even just
having it for refresh would go a long way to shedding light on some of
our libraries that aren't updates as often as they might be. Especially
with the scripting langaguages.

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