From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Compressing compressed files Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 10:13:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20160802081301.GA2166@solar> References: <20160801085839.GA2426@solar> <87oa5cqxxt.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUUp5-0006Yz-Go for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 04:13:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUUp2-0007HJ-8G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 04:13:10 -0400 Received: from mailrelay1.public.one.com ([91.198.169.124]:26873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUUp1-0007Gd-RT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 04:13:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87oa5cqxxt.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 06:02:54PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > [Time passes…] > > I thought it would be quicker to fix it but was proved wrong, because > ‘guix substitute’ expects to be able to pass non-file ports to > ‘decompressed-ports’, which means we cannot just use ‘duplicate-port’ > there. Anyway, I’ve pushed ‘wip-offload-compression’ and we’ll look at > it again after the release. Apologies, my mail was not meant as an immediate call for action! I would also have been happy about a reply stating that it is too difficult compared to the limited benefit. Andreas