libffi propagation in glib versions causes issues

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Csepp wrote on 25 May 2023 21:37
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guix upgrade: error: profile contains conflicting entries for libffi
guix upgrade: error: first entry: libffi@3.4.4 /gnu/store/w8b0l8hk6g0fahj4fvmc4qqm3cvaxnmv-libffi-3.4.4
guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from glib@2.72.3
guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from dconf@0.40.0
guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from eog@42.3
guix upgrade: error: second entry: libffi@3.3 /gnu/store/wgqhlc12qvlwiklam7hz2r311fdcqfim-libffi-3.3
guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from glib@2.70.2
guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from gdk-pixbuf@2.42.4
guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from libnotify@0.7.9

Why do these need to be propagated?
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Csepp wrote on 5 Jun 2023 23:50
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Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:

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> guix upgrade: error: profile contains conflicting entries for libffi
> guix upgrade: error: first entry: libffi@3.4.4 /gnu/store/w8b0l8hk6g0fahj4fvmc4qqm3cvaxnmv-libffi-3.4.4
> guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from glib@2.72.3
> guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from dconf@0.40.0
> guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from eog@42.3
> guix upgrade: error: second entry: libffi@3.3 /gnu/store/wgqhlc12qvlwiklam7hz2r311fdcqfim-libffi-3.3
> guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from glib@2.70.2
> guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from gdk-pixbuf@2.42.4
> guix upgrade: error: ... propagated from libnotify@0.7.9
>
> Why do these need to be propagated?

This issue still persists, stopping me from being able to upgrade.
I also can't have both eog (Eye of GNOME) and the default glib
package installed, so just removing libnotify didn't help, and I'd
rather not play whack-a-mole with removing packages.

Some more insight into why there are multiple propagated versions of
libffi and glib would be greatly appreciated.
?