GNU bug report logs - #24886
Grafting triggers a download of all the outputs of each derivation

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:55:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bug-guix <at> gnu.org, help-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is die "doc" output downloaded when building this package?
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 16:25:29 +0100

Am 05.11.2016 um 22:53 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Most likely this is due to a limitation of the current implementation of
> grafts: all the outputs of packages on a “grafting path” need to be
> downloaded, even if some of these outputs are unused.

IC. Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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