On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 05:48:16PM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
> It is not related with parallel download but on old machines "guix
> build --no-substitutes" can eat a lot of resources; for example if the
> package has a lot of dependencies. I would like to be able to list
> which dependencies I want to build and which I want to substitute.
> Maybe it is already possible.
> 
> Currently, I am doing:
> 
>   guix build `guix show PKG | recsel -R dependencies`
>   guix build PKG --no-substitutes
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 

Not a true solution of 'guix build foo bar --no-substitutes baz' but for
your example you can do it in one line with:
'guix environment PKG -- guix build PKG --no-subsitutes'

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