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Re: Self-contained Guix tarball
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Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer |
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Re: Self-contained Guix tarball |
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Sun, 19 Apr 2015 15:34:20 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> BTW when Nix decided to go for a meta-database they lost something. I
>> know it has good reasons (performance mostly) but it took away the
>> self-containedness of packages. It would be nice just to be able to
>> copy/del packages and rebuild the meta information. Do we have
>> something like that?
>
> This part is the same as Nix. The database is here to store meta-data
> about store items, notably the list of references found in a store item.
> Determining this list requires scanning all of the store item’s
> contents, which takes time proportional to the number/size of files it
> contains, so the database can hardly be avoided.
Just throwing this out there:
Would it be possible to bundle meta-data files together with store
items?
I guess one could in principle make each store item a directory with any
number of meta-data files plus the actual content of the store item (a
file or directory), but I suppose it would be too big an overhaul of the
design to make this worthwhile.
Taylan
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, (continued)
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Thompson, David, 2015/04/13
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/16
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/16
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/18
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/19
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/19
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball,
Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer <=
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/20
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/04/21
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/21