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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?What=E2=80=99s?= next?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 13:41:05 -0700
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Hi Brendan,
>
> Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildesley@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>
>> One little annoyance I have is that guix takes every opportunity to
>> update the list of substitutes when guix build, guix package -u, etc...
>> is run, and fills my terminal with output like:
>>
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> ...
>
> I agree, it=E2=80=99s actually a huge annoyance.  It relates to grafts an=
d how
> they are implemented; I took a stab at fixing this a while back but the
> approach turned out to be (mostly?) misguided:
>
>   https://bugs.gnu.org/22990
>
> Would be worth thinking through it again!

Maybe we could make a timer variable configurable, so that at least it
doesn't try to refresh this information at *every* guix command? Default
could be at least one hour. I care about my security, but refreshing
this at every command seems pretty wasteful in terms of resources.

Maxim