From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Adam <adam.quandour@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is git the best tool for pulling packages?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:11:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyqgp10a.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+jnL0O07yJKn_qZ1WRmZB8+c9jGxjLbzE-mG5CGLO5RJcxMgQ@mail.gmail.com> (Adam's message of "Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:31:24 +0300")
Adam <adam.quandour@gmail.com> writes:
> As I see, first guix pull running too long for a lot of people.
Note that this is not due to download speeds but often due to
compilation. When updating Guix you are not just fetching new data, but
a new version of Guix itself (which happens to come with a library
encoding package relationships). That new version may need to be
compiled locally, which is slow. We aim to provide pre-built components
that Guix can download instead, but computing what needs to be fetched
in the first place *also* takes a decent amount of time.
The problem would be the same if the transport mechanism was a
compressed archive instead of an update to a git repository.
> Probably there are ways to cache all of this.
We are caching things in ~/.cache/guix.
--
Ricardo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-23 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-21 22:31 Is git the best tool for pulling packages? Adam
2024-04-23 14:00 ` Leo Famulari
2024-04-23 15:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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