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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: why 'package --remove' download stuff?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:20:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ0FeqBgT-hO9gsuiBSpAvTT4SrN-w7msF3xaFVxc9UutQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200214011634.GB26096@jasmine.lan>

Hi Leo,,

Thank you for the explanations.

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 02:16, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 01:54:53AM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> > Hmm? Okish... but it is really annoying. And I do not understand the
> > reason of this.
>
> The reason is that, after you made the last profile, you ran `guix
> pull`.
>
> Some package that is used to build profiles was updated in the `guix
> pull` and now, to make a new profile, you need to use that updated
> package. There are profile hooks that do things like build the man page
> database, and maybe those packages were updated.
>
> Does that make sense?

Yes, it makes sense but it is totally counter-intuitive. :-)

Well, it is a bit hard: remove a tiny package and then big packages
such as GHC are downloaded.
I will see if I can improve the doc or something else.


Thanks,
simon

      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 18:03 why 'package --remove' download stuff? zimoun
2020-02-13 18:30 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-14  0:54   ` zimoun
2020-02-14  1:16     ` Leo Famulari
2020-02-14 11:20       ` zimoun [this message]

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