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* Is it necessary to download the native inputs while installing packages?
@ 2018-01-18 15:19 Fis Trivial
  2018-01-18 17:36 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Fis Trivial @ 2018-01-18 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel@gnu.org

The network connections to hydra is bad at day time from where I am, the
download speed is about 10kB/s, I can only work with guix at night.
And sometimes I use guix --fallback option(like texlive), guix will redirect to
the upstream download link. Chances are the upstream has even worse network
bandwidth, then I have to manually find a mirror of that particular upstream
and use `guix download`.

In the case of *texlive-texmf*, it serves mostly as a build dependence. To make
things even less convenient, most of the mirror site only store its ISO
package, not the tar ball used in guix package.

So, I gotta wonder, can we just download the normal inputs and propagated
inputs from hydra while installing packages? Would that break something like
the functional property of guix?

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2018-01-18 15:19 Is it necessary to download the native inputs while installing packages? Fis Trivial
2018-01-18 17:36 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-18 19:56   ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-18 20:01     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-18 20:54     ` Fis Trivial
2018-01-19 13:24       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-20  0:13       ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-20 10:40         ` Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-20 15:47           ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-21 22:37             ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-21 22:47               ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-24 14:26                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26  0:56           ` Fis Trivial
2018-01-26  1:05             ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice

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