Subject: Re: bug#62064: Why is only rust-1.60 exported when 1.65 is defined?

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:03:09 +0200

Hi,

On mar., 14 mars 2023 at 08:59, Jonas Møller via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I think it would be best if Guix separated these concerns, by
> disconnecting the "Rust we use to build packages internally" with the
> "Rust that gets installed with `guix install rust`" 

Using your proposal, how do you deal with

    guix install rust rust-foobar

?  Do you expect that rust-foobar is built using the latest Rust or the
internal Rust?

Well, from my point of view, what you would like is that the symbol
’rust-1.65’ would be named “rust-next”.  It is the current way for
several versions; see emacs vs emacs-next.

See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62643

I propose to close this report once #62643 is merged.

Cheers,
simon