From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>,
Alex Vestgaard <birkeroed@protonmail.ch>
Subject: Re: GuixSD installation: binary vs source packages
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 22:23:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170226032313.GA21575@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861sumav2t.fsf@gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:12:26PM -0500, myglc2 wrote:
> Thanks. I think the issue with this feature is that there is no guidance
> for picking an URL.
>
> Here is an idea... What if hydra provided an URL guidance page? For
> example, it could have a short list of "guix greatest hits URLs" for
> which, hopefully, a full set of substitutes is maintained. Obvious
> candidates for this list would be the last couple install images. Or, it
> could provide a page ranking URLs by release date and showing substitute
> coverage.
Don't the examples in the manual provide some guidance about how to use
the feature? I meant to make it clear that you can ask the server for a
snapshot of a release tag.
Currently we don't have the capacity to keep substitutes spanning
multiple release tags.
I don't have the knowledge to evaluate the possibility of ranking
commits by substitute coverage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-26 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-24 18:39 GuixSD installation: binary vs source packages Alex Vestgaard
2017-02-25 2:01 ` myglc2
2017-02-25 15:52 ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-25 20:12 ` myglc2
2017-02-26 3:23 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-03-06 10:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-06 16:09 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-07 10:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
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