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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix pull only from private channel
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:44:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86im8u83qu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <858s9qxkah.fsf@beadling.co.uk>

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 09:27, Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk> wrote:

> Yep this is what I've ended up doing - but am still a bit surprised that
> even with a pinned guix commit id, and a private channel containing a
> single trivial package with available substitute, doing a 'git pull' is
> still fairly expensive (approx 1min).  This is quicker than pulling
> latest guix, of course - so there is some improvement.

I agree.  Some optimizations could be done, maybe by cutting some
unnecessary computations or check.

> Personally I think GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH still serves some practical
> purpose, which is not as well covered by channels?

Personally, I do not use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH for local packages but the
option ’--load-path’ when I need it.


All the best,
simon


      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-22 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-15 17:58 guix pull only from private channel Phil
2020-12-16 14:07 ` zimoun
2020-12-19 12:28   ` Phil
2020-12-21 12:16     ` zimoun
2020-12-22  9:27       ` Phil
2020-12-22 11:44         ` zimoun [this message]

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