From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 22990@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22990: Grafts leads to inefficient substitute info retrieval
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1_imnWoGFQ=NBjghV1wracigF676j4zomgCsfCTPO+JiPbKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874m15yl99.fsf@gnu.org>
> On second thought, the whole idea of applying grafts on the final result
> (instead of applying grafts at each step like we do now) doesn’t fly.
> It works well for things like a profile or the system derivation, but
> breaks for less trivial things.
> For example, if you’re building a VM image or a binary tarball, you
> really need to graft packages early on; trying to graft the VM image or
> binary tarball wouldn’t have the desired effect.
Isn't a system derivation or a profile derivation an intermediate step
to these derivations? Can't there be a flag or something called
#:already-grafted? #t?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-11 16:52 bug#22990: Grafts leads to inefficient substitute info retrieval Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-12 9:23 ` Alex Kost
2016-03-13 12:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-15 18:49 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-03-15 21:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-15 8:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-08 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-09 22:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-11 9:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-11 10:51 ` David Craven [this message]
2017-01-11 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-29 13:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
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