From: Adam <adam.quandour@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Is git the best tool for pulling packages?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:31:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+jnL0O07yJKn_qZ1WRmZB8+c9jGxjLbzE-mG5CGLO5RJcxMgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi guix!
Recently I used nixos on one of my machines. And I noticed people there use
tar balls for fetching package definitions. And It worked much faster for
me.
That was surprising and I decided to write this letter.
Is git the right tool for getting new package definitions? What if git
commits history will become enormous?
As I see, first guix pull running too long for a lot of people.
Probably there are ways to cache all of this.
Anyway, I'm just curious about it. If there are already answers for my
question, I would like to read them.
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2024-04-21 22:31 Adam [this message]
2024-04-23 14:00 ` Is git the best tool for pulling packages? Leo Famulari
2024-04-23 15:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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