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conflicts in propagated imports must be resolved manually

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>, 42595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42595: conflicts in propagated imports must be resolved manually
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:44:17 +0200

Hi Arne & Efraim,

efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 09:54:07AM +0200, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When I get conflicts in propagated imports, I must follow a mechanical
>> multi-step process to resolve them manually.

[...]

>> LANG=C guix package -i guile-gi python-pycairo dbus-glib cairo guile-charting libsoup poppler pango
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>    python-pycairo (dependencies or package changed)
>>    dbus-glib      (dependencies or package changed)
>>    cairo          (dependencies or package changed)
>>    guile-charting (dependencies or package changed)
>>    libsoup        (dependencies or package changed)
>>    poppler        (dependencies or package changed)
>>    pango          (dependencies or package changed)
>> 
>> The following package will be installed:
>>    guile-gi 0.3.0
>> 
>> guix package: error: profile contains conflicting entries for glib
>> guix package: error:   first entry: glib <at> 2.62.6 /gnu/store/xr6zfqxklmr7skalljn5i071xmgqxbrm-glib-2.62.6
>> guix package: error:    ... propagated from cairo <at> 1.16.0
>> guix package: error:    ... propagated from pango <at> 1.44.7
>> guix package: error:   second entry: glib <at> 2.62.6 /gnu/store/q4100sjqcsdi6b232ndr93vxfzv9bzij-glib-2.62.6
>> guix package: error:    ... propagated from libnotify <at> 0.7.7
>> 
>> 
>> This should be automated, so there would be just one step to add all
>> updates I need.
>
> Are all of the packages from the same guix commit? What if you try
> running 'guix package -u' to upgrade all your packages first and then
> installing new ones?

Also, Arne, it seems to me that Guix alone cannot decide how to solve
that conflict; it’s up to the user.  Thoughts?

Ludo’.

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