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Re: Modify system behavior after reconfigure


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Modify system behavior after reconfigure
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:25:35 +0100
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Jone <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo writes:
>
>> Reconfiguring does not take a lot of time when there have been only
>> minor changes.  It only takes a couple of seconds.
>
> Well, let's just say, this is not always true. The last time was a full
> compilation of Icecat from source (!) "It only takes a couple of
> hours" ;) 

Only if you change the version of Guix in between reconfiguration or if
you add packages to the global list of packages (which is not where I’d
put browsers) for which there are no substitutes.

-- 
Ricardo

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