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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2019 20:59:29 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   I needed a version of Racket with the latest version of openssl because I needed some cryptographic primitives in the newer openssl that isn't in the default one.

   "Aw man", I said, "it's in core-updates (the development branch) and looks already prebuilt there, but I don't want to switch my *whole system* to core-updates."

   It turns out with Channels and Inferiors, I don't have to! I can switch over just the packages I need! https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Inferiors.html

   Guix is amazing.

   • Efraim Flashner (efraim@tooot.im)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2019 04:56:44 UTC Efraim Flashner

     in reply to

     @cwebber
     Wouldn't 'guix build racket --with-input=openssl=openssl-next' also work? I don't play with that one so often.

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.