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guix shell --check: confusing error message

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "(" <paren <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 53355 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, 51466 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53355: bug#51466: bug#53355: guix shell --check: confusing error message
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:11:06 +0200

Hi,

"(" <paren <at> disroot.org> skribis:

> On Tue Jun 28, 2022 at 11:38 AM BST, Maxime Devos wrote:
>> Then it could be fixed in that distro?  And if the distro intentionally
>> keeps it broken for years, then that seems more a problem in the distro
>> than Guix to me.
>
> I believe Ludo' is referring to LTS distros and other situations where
> somebody might not update for a long time.

Yeah.  Whatever the reason, it’s a fact that our users might run Guix on
a system with a broken Dash, which is why I think we have to cope with it.

Ludo’.

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