GNU bug report logs - #33285
Installing, then removing, a package yields a different profile

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 06:27:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 33285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 33285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33285: Installing, then removing,
 a package yields a different profile
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:11:41 +0100

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> [snip]
>
> I think it’s fine to leave it as it is, then.  “--install” and
> “--remove” are stateful and should be expected to have quirks like this.
> (E.g. upgrading Guix in between two “--install”s can lead to
> a mosaic of a profile that could not be produced any other way.)

This seems like a very reasonable perspective on this issue, so I
concur. Should we state this explicitly somewhere in the manual?
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