From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: Why does installing icedtea-1.13.12 install the docs and jdk, too? Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:37:23 +0200 Message-ID: <57DC03A3.5050507@crazy-compilers.com> References: <57DBDAAF.1000009@crazy-compilers.com> <87d1k4kkhx.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkuGh-0003fb-Bs for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:37:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkuGd-0002ny-1Y for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:37:30 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:50761) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkuGc-0002mQ-P8 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:37:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d1k4kkhx.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: ng0 , help-guix 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 | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |