Richard Sent skribis:
>2. Less maintainence burden to regularly update pinned commits,
>particularly as a channel dependency tree grows.
>
> I feel that soft-pinning strikes a balance between those two goals that
> is useful when dependencies on a frequently updated channel are unlikely
Hi Richard,
Richard Sent skribis:
> If I want to use time-machine as part of entering a development
> environment for some channel collection and a new guix commit is pushed,
> then the next time I invoke that same time-machine command there will be
> a large delay as Guix fetches,
Hi Ludo,
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> I’m not sure I understand the use case. Two different but “common” (?)
> use cases come to mind.
>
> First one is when you want to share the exact same environment within a
> team of developers, say. In that case, you have a ‘channels.scm’ that
> pins
Hi Ludo!
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> I understand and share the frustration regarding performance.
>
> To address the problem, I would suggest a different route (the problem
> with the patch you propose here is that it makes things unpredicatable
> and stateful: you’d end up using whatever commit
Hi Richard,
Richard Sent skribis:
>> I think channels listed in channels.scm files should optionally support
>> using whatever channel version is already in the user's profile, if
>> present. This would significantly speed up entering development
>> environments composed of Guix channels.
>
>>
May 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM, "Richard Sent" wrote:
>
> Hi Guix!
>
> >
> > I think channels listed in channels.scm files should optionally support
> >
> > using whatever channel version is already in the user's profile, if
> >
> > present. This would significantly speed up entering
Hi Guix!
> I think channels listed in channels.scm files should optionally support
> using whatever channel version is already in the user's profile, if
> present. This would significantly speed up entering development
> environments composed of Guix channels.
> Unfortunately, *I may be delayed
Hi Guix,
To my knowledge what I'm asking for can't currently be done, but if it
can feel free to disregard.
I think channels listed in channels.scm files should optionally support
using whatever channel version is already in the user's profile, if
present. This would significantly speed up
