Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 04.11.2018 um 23:34 schrieb Leo Famulari: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 11:20:22PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote: >> I experienced an even more irritating behavior: >> >> On a system which I hadn't touched for long, I switched a profile - from >> an old one it's predecessor. Even in this case guix sta

Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 11:20:22PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > I experienced an even more irritating behavior: > > On a system which I hadn't touched for long, I switched a profile - from > an old one it's predecessor. Even in this case guix started to download > substitutes and build software.

Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, Am 04.11.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Leo Famulari: > If you have updated Guix (`guix pull`) since your last profile was > created, the collection of software required to build profiles may have > been updated. So, now you need that software in order to make the new > profile. > > It's a bit counteri

Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 04:09:16PM +0100, Marco van Hulten wrote: > I removed a package, but this resulted in other packages being built: [...] > It takes a long time. Why does this happen? When you manage your installed packages with Guix, for example with `guix package --remove`, you create a

removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Marco van Hulten
Hi— I removed a package, but this resulted in other packages being built: $ guix package -r evince The following package will be removed: evince 3.28.2 /gnu/store/0453w20ldm1pxhbbginwi35ri2w2b7vi-evince-3.28.2 Building /gnu/store/2gf7ndczpg99kbcy5vap5q1lpg1wf8hm-texinfo-6.5.tar.xz.dr