Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: >> >>> At some point we should fix the support for '#:substitutable?' on hydra >> >> That probably means that #:substitutable? should be propagated–i.e., >> that anything depending on ATLAS should not be substituted. > > As I just wrote in the "texlive failure" thread, setting > #:substitutable? #f might make sense for texlive. However, in that case > we certainly would not want to propagate that setting. > > So, instead of propagating it, how about simply arranging to not send > such packages to the build slaves, instead forcing them to build it > locally on their own?
I think there are two properties of interest: “substitutability”, and “offloadability”. What do we want for ATLAS, for NumPy, and for TeX Live? However, note that we can’t currently distinguish between these two properties: <http://bugs.gnu.org/18747>. Thanks, Ludo’.
