On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 06:00:19PM -0400, Bone Baboon via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > Mark H Weaver writes: > > I also build everything locally, and have sometimes run into problems > > like this on my slower machines. Overly aggressive test timeouts, > > chosen for powerful developer machines, are annoying. > > What are the benefits of aggressive test timeouts chosen for powerful > developer machines?
I don't think it's a question of "benefits" as much as "worked on my machine". Developers don't use slow machines and they've set these timeouts accordingly. We do relax the timeouts sometimes, based on reports like yours, because Guix is a build-from-source distro at heart, and it should be possible to use it on slow or old computers.
