Re: How to avoid downloading qtbase:debug

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> 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).

Could you write it?  It's clear you know much more about what's going on
under the hood.