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‘guix locate’ method is silently ignored when a cache exists

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 65001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65001: ‘guix locate’ method is silently ignored when a cache exists
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:03:19 +0200

Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> 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’.

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