Hi, On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 09:27, Phil <p...@beadling.co.uk> wrote:
> Yep this is what I've ended up doing - but am still a bit surprised that > even with a pinned guix commit id, and a private channel containing a > single trivial package with available substitute, doing a 'git pull' is > still fairly expensive (approx 1min). This is quicker than pulling > latest guix, of course - so there is some improvement. I agree. Some optimizations could be done, maybe by cutting some unnecessary computations or check. > Personally I think GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH still serves some practical > purpose, which is not as well covered by channels? Personally, I do not use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH for local packages but the option ’--load-path’ when I need it. All the best, simon
