From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
Cc: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to avoid downloading qtbase:debug
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:28:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a65oszka.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0z0cfa3.fsf@riseup.net> (Csepp's message of "Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:39:54 +0200")
Hi,
Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:
> kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> =guix shell qtbase= downloads the entire debug output of qtbase even
>> though I didn't write down qtbase:debug. That's hundreds of megabytes
>> of bandwith I didn't want to use. How do I avoid downloading the debug
>> output? Is this a bug?
>
> I think it should be considered a bug. guix shell always downloads
> every output of all the packages.
Yes, that's annoying. I think it has to do with grafts; when a package
must be grafted, all its output must be available. Grafts complicates
many things, but unfortunately they are necessary to provide timely
security updates.
I don't see a bug anymore for that one, we should try to improve things
here; feel free to report it to bug-guix@gnu.org, perhaps with a title
like "grafts cause all outputs to be downloaded". Perhaps a solution
would be making graft derivations substitutable (currently they happen
on the local machine).
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-23 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-22 1:39 How to avoid downloading qtbase:debug kiasoc5
2022-10-22 10:39 ` Csepp
2022-10-22 14:28 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-10-22 15:37 ` Csepp
2022-10-22 15:28 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-10-22 19:27 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-10-27 17:03 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-11-18 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
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