I've rebased wip-ppc64le onto core-updates

2021-02-27 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Léo and others, I just wanted to let you know that I've rebased the wip-ppc64le branch onto core-updates. The wip-ppc64le branch head used to be 147b74817e6cf97f37090ecfd52e2588f4c39f7e, but now it's df5d633db7acf6389ca9d444b8f5784a0da5ac5d. I wanted to inform you so you don't get caught off-

Re: Getting rid of the mandb profile hook?

2021-02-27 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Guix! > > I was inspired by Michael Stapelberg’s talk recently shared on IRC¹ > (well worth watching!). One of the takeaways for me is that many > actions should be done lazily, in particular populating caches. > > ‘guix install’ & co. spend a significan

Re: [Outreachy] Use of impure functional programming and use of vlists

2021-02-27 Thread Arun Isaac
> 1) having a list and then using for-each it to display the commit > information; > 2) display the list while building it. Would something like list-transduce from srfi-171 be useful? list-transduce lets you avoid building intermediate lists that need to be garbage collected. https://www.gnu.o

Re: Xpdf with or without Qt

2021-02-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Thank you, Vincent, Leo and Simon for all your suggestions! I note that they differ in whether xpdf gets recompiled when dependencies change (keeping a package around in a scheme file or channel) or not (using inferiors or a separate, not updated profile); probably both may have their advantages a