On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 14:05:53 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I'm particularly sensitive to the memory requirements at build time, > because I choose not to trust the build farm and therefore to build my > entire Guix system with GNOME from source code on a relatively old > Thinkpad X200 with only 4 GB of RAM. I've been doing this for many > years, and I'd like to enable other Guix users to do so if they wish.
As someone with the same system as you, I have appreciated this for as long as I've used Guix. Thank you. > My impression is that IceCat debug outputs would primarily useful to > people who are actively developing IceCat, in which case it makes more > sense to build it manually to allow incremental rebuilds after modifying > the source code. I agree---I think it's best not to burden all users (that choose to or have to build) in this case. -- Mike Gerwitz
