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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Modify system behavior after reconfigure
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:25:35 +0100
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Jone <yeger9@gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo writes:
>
>> Reconfiguring does not take a lot of time when there have been only
>> minor changes.  It only takes a couple of seconds.
>
> Well, let's just say, this is not always true. The last time was a full
> compilation of Icecat from source (!) "It only takes a couple of
> hours" ;)=20

Only if you change the version of Guix in between reconfiguration or if
you add packages to the global list of packages (which is not where I=E2=80=
=99d
put browsers) for which there are no substitutes.

--=20
Ricardo

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