From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add numpy Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:26:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87vbn2in3t.fsf@gnu.org> References: 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]:39440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjakz-0004ud-Lt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:26:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjakt-0001Xx-Vi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:26:17 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:45218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjakt-0001Xi-O7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:26:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:17:33 +0100") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Federico Beffa skribis: > In my opinion the fact that guix makes it easy to build a package on > the user machine is really a key advantage over other package > managers/distributions, for a few, somewhat special packages, ATLAS > being one. It would really be a pity to give up such nice a feature > to spare some build time (ca. 10 min. on my system from 2007). Yeah, that=E2=80=99s right. Let=E2=80=99s forget about the generic version= until someone has a more compelling argument in favor of it. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.