From: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
To: "Edouard Klein" <edou@rdklein.fr>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix pull: avoiding "Computing Guix derivation"
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 10:38:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfsr1nc6.fsf@jpoiret.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0e44f4s.fsf@rdklein.fr>
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Hi everyone,
Edouard Klein <edou@rdklein.fr> writes:
> I think my misunderstanding boils down to a bad mental model of how guix
> works.
>
> What I imagine the "Computing guix derivation" step to be is no
> different than building a package whose inputs are the channels'
> sources, guile, and the current guix, and whose output is the new guix.
>
> Simon and Richard pointed out that the combinatorial combination of all
> possible input combination makes this hard to substitute, but I don't
> understand how its result, once in the store, can't lead to a simple
> linking from the profile to the store, instead of re-running the
> "Computing guix derivation" step when guix pull is called with the same
> inputs.
>
> Surely my mental model is wrong somehow ?
You might be interested in this thread [1], which tries to explain the
terrible performance of `guix pull`.
[1] mid:87wmxe3vsa.fsf@jpoiret.xyz
https://yhetil.org/guix/87wmxe3vsa.fsf@jpoiret.xyz/
Best,
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Josselin Poiret
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-15 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-13 15:04 Guix pull: avoiding "Computing Guix derivation" Edouard Klein
2024-05-13 15:45 ` Ryan Sundberg
2024-05-14 14:32 ` Edouard Klein
2024-06-24 15:25 ` Edouard Klein
2024-05-13 19:28 ` Simon Tournier
2024-05-13 21:11 ` Richard Sent
2024-05-13 23:30 ` Simon Tournier
2024-05-14 0:52 ` Richard Sent
2024-05-14 9:47 ` Simon Tournier
2024-05-14 14:40 ` Edouard Klein
2024-05-14 10:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-14 14:02 ` Richard Sent
2024-05-14 17:29 ` Richard Sent
2024-05-14 14:48 ` Edouard Klein
2024-05-15 8:38 ` Josselin Poiret [this message]
2024-05-31 14:02 ` Edouard Klein
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