Hi kiasoc5, thank you. Are substitutes in Guix System disabled by running `# guix-daemon --no-substitutes`? How can I see whether they are enabled or not?
-------- Original Message -------- On Feb 21, 2024, 21:36, kiasoc5 wrote: > Hi Oleander, On 2/21/24 9:00 AM, Oleander via wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm > considering disabling substitutes on my current Guix system running on an old > Thinkpad with an i5-2520M, 10GB of ram and an SSD. Build times will probably > take a while if all substitutes are disabled because you (might?) have to > bootstrap the compilers. > Considered that many of you might be running Guix > on something similar due to the compatibility between coreboot/libreboot and > old Thinkpads, how long would it take approximately to build and upgrade > packages like: I don't have a Thinkpad but I'll predict the packages with the > longest compile times. > linux-libre If you customize your kernel for > unnecessary modules, this speed up quite a bit (on my machine I can > theoretically cut the time by half). > icecat This will probably take the > longest. 1. Depends on bootstrapping rust first. With 10GB of RAM I'd suggest > using swap. 2. Is a "modern" browser. At least it should compile faster than > chromium, once all the Rusts are built. > pandoc I'm not sure about this > exactly, but it does depends on Haskell bootstrap. Hopefully it's faster than > Rust. > alacritty Like icecat, requires Rust. The actual app should be > relatively faster to compile. Personally to estimate compile times, I build > binutils to get the Standard Build Unit and reference BLFS for relative build > times: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/
