Am Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:38:28PM +0300 schrieb André A. Gomes: > Nigko Yerden <nigko.yer...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hello Guix! > > Shouldn't 'guix pull' substitutes also work on foreign distros? > I'd like to re-iterate the question. I have been using the Guix system > for years but lately I'm also using it as a package manager. It is > rather off-putting that guix pull will take more than 20 minutes in this > setting. Newcomers will probably start by using it a package manager > and only then commit to the system.
I have no answer, but can confirm the problem and state that it is not related to using Guix as a package manager or as a full system. In both cases "guix pull" should do the same thing. However, I am also surprised by the following behaviour: I have three users on my Guix system, and always do three "guix pull --commit=..." on the same commit for all of them. It happens that the second or third user compiles derivations that I would expect to be in the store already. I do not know what the differences are. Someone suggested to me it could be related to channels. Apparently, using a different set of channels leads to different derivations. But last week it has also happened for my two users with only the main channel. Andreas
