> But I think 'guix package' can be made a lot more user-friendly by not > showing the build output (by default). The summary of what will be > installed, and some progress indicator or at least something moving to > show the user it's doing something, and eventually the success or > failure message is enough.
Is it possible to have `guix package' NOT build from source? I really hate it when big packages like icecat, epiphany, or libreoffice start building on my machine. It takes about a day for each one of these packages to build on my machine, and they generally swap so much into HDD, that I can hardly do anything else when building. Because of this inconvenience, I keep postponing upgrading my packages. Also, sometimes having to "--fallback" to building source is such a pain. I think the end user needs a Debian-like experience (or like other conventional non-source distros) where they can ALWAYS download the latest packages from the repos.
