P via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Can we tell Guix that an input is runtime only? Or only needed in > certain stages of the build? We cannot and we cannot guarantee that the presence of a package during the build isn’t going to affect the build outcome. > For example, if a large package (let's > say... written in Rust) uses Lua for a utility script at run time, but > doesn't touch it at build time changing the Lua version should not > result in a recompilation. We cannot guarantee this. -- Ricardo
