Re: What’s next?

[Brendan Tildesley]

Ludovic Courtès 於 2017-05-24 23:11 寫道:
> Hello Guix!
>
> I think it’s time to think about what we want to work on next, ideally
> before the next release, and ideally said release should be in a couple
> of months rather than in 5 months.  Here are some important items I can
> think of:
[...]
> I think the key idea is that we should fix all the annoyances and bugs,
> many of which seasoned Guix hackers more or less got used to, but which
> are nevertheless a serious hindrance when using Guix “normally.”
>
> Ludo’.

One little annoyance I have is that guix takes every opportunity to
update the list of substitutes when guix build, guix package -u, etc...
is run, and fills my terminal with output like:

substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
...

It will output this line a different number each time based on some rule
I couldn't guess, and renders the percentage measurement meaningless.
Currently I am running `guix system init config.scm
--substitute-urls="http://10.1.1.61:8080 https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/";
--fallback' from the 0.13 installer, and it his been outputting hundreds
of these lines for the last half an hour. I'm not sure if it is ever
going to stop, perhaps I've stumbled across a genuine bug? In any case,
the minor annoyance version is something I've noticed for a while.