Re: Compressing compressed files

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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.

No problem!  I thought it’d be so easy that I should do it right away,
all my fault.  :-)

Ludo’.