Le Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:14:19 +0000, znavko--- via <help-guix@gnu.org> a écrit :
> Hello, Guix Help! Hello! > I often run `guix pull && guix package -u` and sometimes it tooks too > much time, and my fan is noisy because some heavy package (like > Icecat or Ungoogled-Chromium or LibreOffice0 is compiling from > sources. > > It's a pity, because to get the newest version of such is not > included into my wish list, and I waste time. > > Is there some 'guix' command run that will download updates and will > check which packages are to be substitued, and which are to be > compiled? > > I want to see this. And then I want to solve to prevent compilation > of LibreOffice, Chromium, Icecat if they are to be compiled. > > Please, show me this hack. You can run ‘guix weather [package-name-1] [package-name-2] […]’ to see if substitutes are available for any given set of packages. I do this for packages that I know are going to get upgraded and would take a long time to build on my system. But chances are that the solutions other have posted can already do this better for you. Best of wishes // Tirifto
