From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Checking for substitutes Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:13:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zi09wgk8.fsf@ngyro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQChw-0001Zt-7r for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:13:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQChp-0008SF-Fv for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:13:07 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:40849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQChp-0008Ro-9J for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:13:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zi09wgk8.fsf@ngyro.com> 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: Timothy Sample Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Tim, Thanks for your explanations! I will try out the script you posted last year. From your description it sounds like good enough to solve my routine problem, which is that compiling Qt runs out of memory on my machine unless it's close to idle. No way to have Emacs + Firefox + Qt compilation with 8 GB of RAM :-( > There=E2=80=99s also the =E2=80=98guix weather=E2=80=99 command. It is s= upposed to provide info > about available substitutes. I have not made much of use of it, though. I tried it. It provides interesting statistics, but always considers all packages in Guix rather than just the ones I care about. Konrad.