Fwd: Is guix the right tool to get package definitions?

[Adam <adam.quandour@gmail.com>]

forgot to cc to help guix

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From: Adam <adam.quandour@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Is guix the right tool to get package definitions?
To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>


Sure, so my concern is - will it be difficult to guix pull new package
definitions when git commit history of guix channel will become
enormous? Is there any way to cache git commit history? Or maybe there
are other ways to achieve this?

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 11:40 AM Felix Lechner
<felix.lechner@lease-up.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Mon, Apr 22 2024, Adam wrote:
>
> > Anyway, I'm just curious about it. If there are already answers for my
> > question, I would like to read them.
>
> I am not familiar with the tarballs Nix uses to deliver updates of
> package definitions.  Their repo is probably bigger than Guix.  Here, we
> use 'guix pull' together with channel definitions.
>
> Is there a chance you might rephrase your question for a better answer,
> please?
>
> Kind regards
> Felix