On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 02:36:11PM +0000, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Hello! > > > > For the record, this is a followup to Efraim’s proposal in > > . > > > > Efraim Flashner skribis: > > > >> Option 1: > >> Track down the ~220 crates which form the dependency graph (of crates) > >> for librsvg and pin them until the next core-updates cycle. Continue > >> like with other packages and add newer versions (like cmake or meson) as > >> packages need them.¹ > > > > The advantage of this approach is that we could do it incrementally: we > > could merge ‘core-updates-frozen’ today and just add pinned variants of > > these 200+ crates as needed as time passes. The downside is that it’s a > > lot of crates to take care of, and we might still accidentally overlook > > seemingly innocuous crate upgrades that end up causing major rebuilds. > > > >> Option 2: > >> Use the bundled crates and treat it as just part of the librsvg source > >> code.² > >> > >> Option 2b: > >> Use the bundled crates for now to finish with core-updates-frozen and > >> revisit this immediately on core-updates (not frozen). > > > > This option will involved a rebuild on x86_64, but the advantage is that > > we’ll be safe going forward: we won’t accidentally cause world rebuilds > > just because an obscure crate somewhere has been upgraded. > > > > [...] > > > >> I'm currently leaning option 2b, it'll get us past this hurdle for > >> core-updates-frozen and let us make changes to the crates as we work to > >> integrate them more fully into Guix. > > > > Same here; it’s not ideal, but it seems like the most reasonable > > short-term option. > > > > If there are no objections, I’d suggest that you go ahead with this > > plan. > > I agree that 2b is the most sensible option in our current situation. Patches pushed to core-updates-frozen. I added a TODO to fix the situation. Thanks for the input everyone. -- Efraim Flashner רנשלפ םירפא GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted