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Grafting prevents build plan from being displayed upfront

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Message #21 received at 28310-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28310-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28310: guix build -n misses package builds
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:42:55 +0200

On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 01:08:12AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> “-n” now implies “--no-grafts” (commit
> fd59105c49965db956fac73c68d8b00d068f5d5c).  This was motivated by the
> need to have -n really perform a dry run.
> 
> The downside is that with -n we now see only half of the build plan, and
> when we remove -n, we start with the other half of the build plan,
> grafting.
> 
> The “build continuation” idea of ‘wip-gexp-grafts’, discussed in
> <https://bugs.gnu.org/22990>, could in theory help with that.

Okay, so to simplify, I am closing this bug report.

Andreas

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