On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:41:43 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
Hi rekado, Thanks for the explanations! Much appreciated. Here are some more questions: > It is a Scheme representation of a derivation, which also has an on-disk > representation. Why was the scheme representation of a derivation needed? Was it primarily so that we can inspect it at the REPL like a scheme object before it gets sent to disk or is there some additional reason? > Everything that the daemon is asked to build must be compiled to a > derivation on disk first. From the perspective of the daemon there are > no first-class packages, only derivations. Much of what Guix as a > library does is to turn package values into derivation files and > builders to feed them into the daemon. Why are the bags needed? What do the bags solve in the system? all best, jgart
