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Subject: Re: Rethinking guix pull [was Re: Heads-up: transition to Guile 2.2]
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> I think that a first step towards improving the experience with =E2=80=9C=
guix
> pull=E2=80=9D is to build Guix continuously on Hydra and tell =E2=80=9Cgu=
ix pull=E2=80=9D to
> download that.  Users would no longer have to wait for compilation on
> their local machines, removing a big incentive to go with a git
> checkout.  Maybe we should do this first to stop the worst problems,
> buying us a bit more time to implement channels.

That=E2=80=99s probably what we=E2=80=99ll do next.  But remember that user=
s will still
have to compute the derivation for that Guix, which in turn should allow
them to get the corresponding substitute, and computing that derivation
is currently relatively costly since you need to compile or interpret a
subset of the Guix code.

Ludo=E2=80=99.