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  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    I am not sure if this is a little out of topic, but now, I’m a little curious about how Guile handles circular dependency, because I came across a similar issue. Is Guix able to access older build for, let’s say, bootstrapping rustc?

    • tetris11@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      All good – though I’m not sure what circular dependency could be resolved by using an older build.

      Typically you do guix package --list-available=^mypackage$ and it lists all available versions, similar to conda