Hello!

Rutherther <[email protected]> skribis:

>>If we eventually replace many tarballs with ‘git-fetch’, then we’ll have
>>to require a version of guix-daemon recent enough to have
>>“builtin:git-download”, to break the cycle.
>>
>
> Note that QA explicitly disables it and replacing any dependency of
> git-minimal with git-fetch causes OOM on evaluation. So this can be
> just one tarball, not many. It has happened recently on Gnome team
> branch. I think a good way forward would be trying to remove as many
> dependencies as possible from git minimal. Currently it even requires
> python iirc.

Yes.  But I was thinking that since “builtin:git-download” was
introduced in Sept. 2023 (commit
95f21231352b66f92c466cb30f2258291e854f2f), we could decide to start
requiring it in the near future.

Ludo’.

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