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Subject: Re: bug#36855: guix system switch-generation doesn't
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To: "Jakob L. Kreuze" <zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Hi Jakob,

zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) writes:

> Thanks for the input; I wasn't aware that the activation process was
> taking so long for some people. One of Ludovic's suggestions was to
> create a single derivation, rather than three, to speed up system
> activation. I'll look into this further.

To be clear, I don't care how long it takes to build these derivations.
However, I think they should all be built before starting to activate
the system.  Does that make sense?

On a side note, what would happen if one of those builds failed?  Would
the system activation be left half-done?

     Thanks,
       Mark