Frozen recipe repositories

[haji-ali]

I was deploying my emacs configuration on a new machine when I realized that recipe repositories are frozen in Radian.

This caused my config to fail since I just started using casual-dired which was just recently added to MELPA.
It's not such a big deal since I just did straight-pull-recipe-repositories, but I am wondering if it makes sense to not freeze the versions of recipe repositories or if there's a way to override their freezing (without directly modifying radian's versions.el)

[raxod502]

It's intended for recipe repositories to be part of the lockfile. Otherwise, the configuration isn't reproducible - packages may pull from different sources, packages may have been removed from the recipe repositories, etc.

What you want is a way to mark particular packages to be controlled by your radian-local lockfile, so that you can use your own versions versus what is upstream in Radian. That feature needs to be implemented in straight.el, which I haven't done yet.