Re: Guix pull: avoiding "Computing Guix derivation"

[Richard Sent]

> I see that build in build-self.scm isn't a derivation, but most of the time 
> spent in build is, to my knowledge, while the daemon is building the 
> build-program derivation. build-program in build-self.scm returns a 
> gexp->script file-like object and I see various /gnu/store 
> *-compute-guix-derivation.drv files in my store.

Sorry, saying "most of the time is spent on building the build-program 
derivation" is not correct. Most of the time is spent on running the 
compute-guix-derivation script. D'oh.

I'll spend more time trying to understand the current system.