Subject: bug#65001: ‘guix locate’ method is silently ignored when a cache exists

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:03:19 +0200

Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Either:
> - the second invocation should imply --update, so Guix should store
>   the currently cache method(s),
> - or Guix should use separate databases for each method.  That's
>   probably too ugly.

The latter sounds ugly.  The former, why not; we then only need to
distinguish between “user-specified method” and “default method” to
determine whether ‘--update’ is implied.

Ludo’.