From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
To: ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>, help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does installing icedtea-1.13.12 install the docs and jdk, too?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:37:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57DC03A3.5050507@crazy-compilers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1k4kkhx.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
Am 16.09.2016 um 16:05 schrieb ng0:
> I think you are confusing installation with downloading.
Maybe :-) But I'd expect that only packages to be installed are
downloaded. Otherwise this would be a wast of time and bandwidth.
> if (I have not checked it) icedtea is just one package with multiple outputs,
it is.
> all outputs will be downloaded
But why? I do not see any reason for downloading packages which their
are neither requested nor installed. If all outputs are downloaded, what
should be the sense of having different outputs?
--
Regards
Hartmut Goebel
| Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com |
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-16 11:42 Why does installing icedtea-1.13.12 install the docs and jdk, too? Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-16 14:05 ` ng0
2016-09-16 14:37 ` Hartmut Goebel [this message]
2016-09-16 14:49 ` ng0
2016-09-16 14:57 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-24 0:32 ` Leo Famulari
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