From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: texlive failure Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:34:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20150210133430.GA21871@debian> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLAxc-0005kL-UB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:34:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLAxZ-0007Jy-Hk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:34:40 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:55207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLAxZ-0007Jn-8K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:34:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:56:17PM +0100, Federico Beffa wrote: > So, I guess grafting takes a very long time. For this package it is > not substantially faster than building the package itself. :-( The speciality of texlive is that it is relatively easy to build - some CPU time for the binaries. Then the data is essentially only unpacked and some of the binaries are run on them, but the latter takes only minutes. So I would always recommend to (re-)build the package locally. Andreas