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Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:21:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Adam Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:21:09 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: is git the right tool for getting package definitions? To: guix-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::102d; envelope-from=adam.quandour@gmail.com; helo=mail-pj1-x102d.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:32:46 -0400 X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.01 X-Spam-Score: -6.01 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 3797114596 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-TUID: cLJFPn08z9jG (original message was formatted in rich text, so I decided to resend it in plain text) Hi guix! Recently I used nixos on one of my machines. And I noticed people there use tar balls for fetching package definitions. And It worked much faster for me. That was surprising and I decided to write this letter. Is git the right tool for getting new package definitions? What if git commits history will become enormous? As I see, the first guix pull is running too long for a lot of people. Probably, there are ways to cache all of this. Anyway, I'm just curious about it. If there are already answers for my question, I would like to read them.