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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: texlive failure
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:37:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ug57rys.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPNHp4pWMy4XM9xsbXGLdaCp0Hvasdinpof7bYjDMjMtmA@mail.gmail.com> (Federico Beffa's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:56:17 +0100")

Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> So, I guess grafting takes a very long time. For this package it is
> not substantially faster than building the package itself. :-(

Grafting takes time proportional to the input size.  It’s OK for
packages of up to several MiB (the vast majority of packages), but here
we’re talking about 3 GiB.

Grafting is intentionally not substitutable, on the grounds that it’s
quite fast for most packages, and certainly faster than re-downloading
stuff.

TeX Live is obviously an exception.  I’m not sure how to address it.  We
must make grafting faster but even then, it’ll probably never be less
than 10mn for something this big.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-10 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-10 12:26 texlive failure Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 12:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 12:58   ` Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 12:56 ` Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 13:34   ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 13:46     ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-10 14:09       ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 13:50     ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-02-10 14:04       ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 14:37   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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