From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: why 'package --remove' download stuff? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:16:34 -0500 Message-ID: <20200214011634.GB26096@jasmine.lan> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j2Pau-0006Ns-Fo for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:16:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j2Pat-0005rn-Gy for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:16:36 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:41309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j2Pat-0005rW-Cy for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:16:35 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: zimoun Cc: help-guix On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 01:54:53AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hmm? Okish... but it is really annoying. And I do not understand the > reason of this. The reason is that, after you made the last profile, you ran `guix pull`. Some package that is used to build profiles was updated in the `guix pull` and now, to make a new profile, you need to use that updated package. There are profile hooks that do things like build the man page database, and maybe those packages were updated. Does that make sense?