[bug#33519] [PATCH 0/4] Reporting grafts in the user interface

[Clément Lassieur]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello Guix!
>>>
>>> These patches add UI hints so that grafting derivations can be
>>> distinguished from more expensive derivations, as suggested by
>>> Ricardo a while back.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Overall this makes operations more transparent.  Advanced users
>>> will know what this means, and hopefully others will notice that
>>> grafting is a relatively fast operation and discover that it has to
>>> do with security updates.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> This is awesome!
>
> I agree!  This looks great.
>
>> And I imagine it will allow to distinguish packages
>> and tests in Cuirass :-)
>
> How would that work?

As a way to link Cuirass packages to tools like hpcguix-web.  It's not a
priority though.