Re: Reducing LLVM closure size

[Oliver Propst]

Well I think regardless that Pierre's efforts are very good and should be encouraged.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:02 PM Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

Le 12 juin 2020 05:06:32 GMT-04:00, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> a écrit :
>
>By the way, this looks like a bug:
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> guix refresh -l llvm
>Building the following package would ensure 3 dependent packages are
>rebuilt: clang-toolchain@10.0.0
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>Why is only 1 package displayed?

Because these are the dependants for llvm@10, but the default llvm is llvm@9:

guix refresh -l llvm@9
Building the following 1180 packages would ensure 2092 lependent packages are rebuilt: …

That's not on latest master, so your numbers can vary a bit.

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-mvh Oliver Propst