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From: Adam <adam.quandour@gmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Is guix the right tool to get package definitions?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:59:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+jnL0Nq9adRte883dBokY1V=RLqUb_pZio2ARW-akZXGjE_bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi guix!
Recently I used nixos on one of my machines. And I noticed people
there use tar balls for fetching package definitions. And It worked
much faster for me.
That was surprising and I decided to write this letter.
Is git the right tool for getting new package definitions? What if git
commits history will become enormous?
As I see, the first guix pull is running too long for a lot of people.
Probably, there are ways to cache all of this.
Anyway, I'm just curious about it. If there are already answers for my
question, I would like to read them.

             reply	other threads:[~2024-04-22 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-22 13:59 Adam [this message]
2024-04-22 18:40 ` Is guix the right tool to get package definitions? Felix Lechner via
     [not found]   ` <CA+jnL0PRgGJ6bWW9D2o4Hx1HwsTYM9yOj7jk01PLhTATXcW=Lg@mail.gmail.com>
2024-04-22 22:34     ` Fwd: " Adam
2024-05-01 14:14       ` Tomas Volf

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