Re: Build and upgrade times for heavier packages on old hardware

[Csepp]

Oleander via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello everyone,
> I'm considering disabling substitutes on my current Guix system
> running on an old Thinkpad with an i5-2520M, 10GB of ram and an SSD.
>
> Considered that many of you might be running Guix on something similar
> due to the compatibility between coreboot/libreboot and old Thinkpads,
> how long would it take approximately to build and upgrade packages
> like:
>
> linux-libre
> gcc
> icecat
> Emacs
> Wayland/Sway
> X11
> EXWM
> texlive-base
> pandoc
> alacritty
>
> ?
>
> Thank you,

Prohibitively.
The word that comes to mind is: "prohibitively".