Re: Compressing compressed files

[Andreas Enge]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 06:02:54PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> [Time passes…]
> 
> I thought it would be quicker to fix it but was proved wrong, because
> ‘guix substitute’ expects to be able to pass non-file ports to
> ‘decompressed-ports’, which means we cannot just use ‘duplicate-port’
> there.  Anyway, I’ve pushed ‘wip-offload-compression’ and we’ll look at
> it again after the release.

Apologies, my mail was not meant as an immediate call for action! I would
also have been happy about a reply stating that it is too difficult compared
to the limited benefit.

Andreas