From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirmacik Subject: Re: Doubt regarding waiting for substitutes Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:15:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87wodqg0dr.fsf@wioo.waw.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iEiPq-00075O-B7 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:15:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEiPp-0004rc-3S for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:15:46 -0400 Received: from mail.freearts.agency ([51.68.137.137]:40308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEiPo-0004oy-BF for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:15:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Raghav Gururajan's message of "Thu, 26 Sep 2019 03:23:30 -0400") 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: Raghav Gururajan Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Raghav Gururajan writes: > Hello Guix! > > After `guix pull`, I usually run `guix upgrade --dry-run` to check > which derivations will be built. If I find heavy ones like icecat, > evolution, calibre, kodi, qtwebkit etc., what is the general rule of > thumb waiting period for the substitutes to be available for those > packages, before I re-run `guix upgrade`? Assuming I will not be doing > another `guix pull` during the waiting. Hey Guix! I'd like to bump the question. New packages like icecat and ungoogled-chromium take sometimes really long time to come up. Trying to compile those has even made fan in my laptop creak. (; -- Cheers, sirmacik PGP: 0xE0DC81D523891771