Subject: Re: [bug#77899] [PATCH] gnu: Add valkey.

From: Hilton Chain <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:57:18 +0800

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:00:40 +0800,
Zhu Zihao wrote:
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> Valkey is a fork of Redis, backed by Linux Foundation. https://valkey.io/
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> Recently, Archlinux replace Redis with Valkey. I suggests Guix use
> valkey for `redis-service-type' to improve the freedom of Guix users.
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> From the practical perspective, It may need time to test the new
> package, so we can just add valkey to the channel first.

Can you add version 7.2.8 instead so that we can deprecate redis directly?

Thanks