~whereiseveryone/toys#168: IDEA: Render dependents of a package

~whereiseveryone/toys#168:

IDEA: Render dependents of a package

Hi,

What do you think if we included the results of guix refresh --list-dependent foo in the html for each <package> foo?

I'm thinking that this might be error prone if we want to render it for any arbitrary channel where package quality might not be at the same standards as upstream...

Status: REPORTED
Submitter: ~whereiseveryone
Assigned to: Assign someone
Submitted: 5 months ago
Updated: 5 months ago
Labels: idea

~whereiseveryone added idea 5 months ago

~unwox 5 months ago · edit

It's a good idea but "guix refresh --list-dependent" is quite slow so we will not be able to pull channels as frequently as we do now (every 30 minutes or so). We could probably reimplement this feature with our tools since we also store inputs but we would have to change DB schema for that

~whereiseveryone 5 months ago* · edit

Would we have to create a little scheduler or guix queue system for running those commands or is that too much complexity and we should just experiment with waiting times between pulls?