Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi, > > Csepp <raingl...@riseup.net> writes: > >> kiasoc5 <kias...@disroot.org> writes: >> >>> Dear Guix, >>> >>> =guix shell qtbase= downloads the entire debug output of qtbase even >>> though I didn't write down qtbase:debug. That's hundreds of megabytes >>> of bandwith I didn't want to use. How do I avoid downloading the debug >>> output? Is this a bug? >> >> I think it should be considered a bug. guix shell always downloads >> every output of all the packages. > > Yes, that's annoying. I think it has to do with grafts; when a package > must be grafted, all its output must be available. Grafts complicates > many things, but unfortunately they are necessary to provide timely > security updates. > > I don't see a bug anymore for that one, we should try to improve things > here; feel free to report it to bug-g...@gnu.org, perhaps with a title > like "grafts cause all outputs to be downloaded". Perhaps a solution > would be making graft derivations substitutable (currently they happen > on the local machine). Could you write it? It's clear you know much more about what's going on under the hood.
