Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > I think that a first step towards improving the experience with “guix > pull” is to build Guix continuously on Hydra and tell “guix pull” to > download that. Users would no longer have to wait for compilation on > their local machines, removing a big incentive to go with a git > checkout. Maybe we should do this first to stop the worst problems, > buying us a bit more time to implement channels.
That’s probably what we’ll do next. But remember that users will still have to compute the derivation for that Guix, which in turn should allow them to get the corresponding substitute, and computing that derivation is currently relatively costly since you need to compile or interpret a subset of the Guix code. Ludo’.
