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> Last I looked at GUIX (which I guess is similar) you are tied to a release "version" of the package-manager with whatever package version it comes with. But maybe I misunderstood

Guix has Inferiors [0] for this nowadays.

There's also a lighter-weight but less robust approach: define a new package inheriting the package in question, changing only the version number and source URI.

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Inferiors.html



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