From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "guix system reconfigure" downloads 2G of stuff it doesn't need
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:43:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zqj7-qN0qVup3SzW@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c1407de-4ddf-4153-8406-9c10c26c21d7@app.fastmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 10:31:35AM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Why does it need to download all of this stuff that I know it doesn't
> actually need (given that "guix gc" deleted it)? In particular it appears
> to be downloading build dependencies for everything whether or not it
> is going to use a substitute for them, and also packages that I have
> intentionally excluded from the system configuration.
Very generally, these programs are considered necessary to build the
system generation itself.
I'm not claiming that each of these programs is executed in the process
of building the generation, but they are considered by Guix to be
required, either directly or transitively, in order to perform this
work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-30 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-29 14:31 "guix system reconfigure" downloads 2G of stuff it doesn't need Zack Weinberg
2024-07-30 14:43 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2024-07-30 17:56 ` Zack Weinberg
2024-08-01 20:38 ` Leo Famulari
2024-08-01 23:45 ` Felix Lechner via
2024-08-02 11:53 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2024-08-02 17:58 ` Felix Lechner via
2024-08-02 19:04 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2024-08-06 8:52 ` Marek Paśnikowski
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