Hello, sirmacik <sirma...@wioo.waw.pl> writes:
> Raghav Gururajan <raghavgurura...@disroot.org> writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> After `guix pull`, I usually run `guix upgrade --dry-run` to check >> which derivations will be built. If I find heavy ones like icecat, >> evolution, calibre, kodi, qtwebkit etc., what is the general rule of >> thumb waiting period for the substitutes to be available for those >> packages, before I re-run `guix upgrade`? Assuming I will not be doing >> another `guix pull` during the waiting. > > Hey Guix! > > I'd like to bump the question. New packages like icecat and > ungoogled-chromium take sometimes really long time to come up. > > Trying to compile those has even made fan in my laptop creak. (; > Not a rule of thumb or anything, just sharing my way. As I don't need any specific update or commits I usually use just `guix pull commit=...` to update and pick a commit from around 24h ago. Unless there has been significant changes I end up building very few packages if any at all. (not using ungoogled-chromium) > -- > Cheers, > sirmacik > PGP: 0xE0DC81D523891771 Hope it helps, L p R n d n
