From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Specifying and build output separately? Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:54:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2d781rh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <118ccdd8-3b7f-2b35-5f5e-69375c1a4565@crazy-compilers.com> <87y41ne4mj.fsf@gnu.org> <58049486.2080400@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw9Iu-0003JK-A2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:54:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw9Iq-0001Sr-HF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:54:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <58049486.2080400@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:06:14 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: Guix-devel Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 17.10.2016 um 10:55 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: >> I prefer this approach over what you propose because it=E2=80=99s more >> consistent with what we usually do, which is to have doc in a =E2=80=9Cd= oc=E2=80=9D >> output rather than in a separate package. > > Yes, but it has the major drawback of building numpy twice - which is > quite time-consuming. > > If we could "augment" the existing bootstrap package, for the normal > one, this would save the second build. You=E2=80=99re right. However, the approach so far has been to favor usabi= lity or convenience over build time. The rationale is that most users do not build everything locally. Does that make sense? Ludo=E2=80=99.