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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (propagated) 'inputs' depends on 'outputs'?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:52:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a713qa8t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a713uiqn.fsf@elephly.net>

Hi Ricardo,

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 17:34, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> That’s correct.  Outputs are buckets into which we drop build
> artifacts.  We will build everything with all inputs in one derivation
> and then move stuff into output buckets.  This means that you can
> download independent outputs individually, but they are still all the
> result of that *single* derivation.  So to build any of the outputs you
> will need to build that derivation, even if it also results in other
> outputs that you don’t care about.

Thank you for the explanations.  I understand even if time to time I
feel frustrated to download and/or build a lot of unrelated packages
that I am really interested in.  But hey, it is how the thing works. :-)

Now all is clear.

Cheers,
simon



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-13 11:01 (propagated) 'inputs' depends on 'outputs'? zimoun
2020-06-13 11:16 ` Christopher Baines
2020-06-16 12:31   ` zimoun
2020-06-16 15:34     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-06-16 15:52       ` zimoun [this message]
2020-06-13 11:38 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-06-16 12:41   ` zimoun
2020-06-16 14:28     ` Julien Lepiller
2020-06-16 15:45       ` zimoun
2020-06-19 20:47         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-19 21:44           ` zimoun

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