GNU bug report logs - #33647
First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 14:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling <at> bjoernhoefling.de>

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody <at> not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr>
Cc: 33647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 06:24:11 +0100

On 2018-12-19 20:27, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> swedebugia wrote:
>> egil <at> parabola:~$ time hash pacman
>>
>> real    0m0,000s
>> user    0m0,000s
>> sys    0m0,000s
>>
>> So it won't and any measuable overhead to just call this in the end of
>> guix package after updating the symlinks to the new profile
>> generation.
> 
> Do you mean to put something like
> 
>   guix() {
>     command "$1" "$@"
>     hash "$1"
>   }
> 
> in the default /etc/profile (or wherever such things belong)?
> 
> I think this is far too intrusive and magical to do by default, 
> considering its limited one-time-only usefulness.  The same goes for 
> patching shells.

That sounds like it could work even though it look like an ugly hack. :)

-- 
Cheers Swedebugia
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