Re: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On jeu., 19 janv. 2023 at 15:32, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

>> I also wonder how much of the space is taken by debug output. Would
>> making graft derivations substitutable help?
>
> Graft derivations are not substitutable because it’s usually faster to
> “build” them locally than to download them (it depends on package size,
> hard disk performance, and network performance; my experience with an
> SSD is that grafting is always faster than downloading, even over FTTH.)

Recently, I built a large profile with oulà many many grafts and my
machine spent some time for that.

Would it be possible to substitute the result after applying grafts?


Cheers,
simon