Subject: Re: bug#43585: Order in manifest and command-line differs

From: Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:08:38 +0200

Hello zimoun,

> $ guix package -i busybox diffutils -p /tmp/foo
> $ ls -l /tmp/foo/bin
> [..]
>  df -> /gnu/store/…-busybox-1.31.1/bin/df
>  diff -> /gnu/store/…-diffutils-3.7/bin/diff
>  diff3 -> /gnu/store/…-diffutils-3.7/bin/diff3
>  dirname -> /gnu/store/…-busybox-1.31.1/bin/dirname
> [..]

The order of what appears in "bin" depends on both the name of the
binaries provided by both packages and also how the "ls" command decides
to sort its output. I'm not sure that much can be done here.

Thanks,

Mathieu