Re: “Which important packages fail to build?”

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Joshua,

> As an aside, should Icecat be on this list?

This list is generated automatically.  Icecat is a leaf package —
nothing else depends on it.

> I keep having to use "guix package
> --do-not-upgrade=icecat -u", because Icecat takes forever to build, and
> I'm not certain that I have enough memory to build it.
>
> However,
>
> #BEGIN_SRC sh
> icecat --version
> #END_SRC
>
> #+:RESULTS:
> GNU IceCat 60.3.0
>
>
> BUT why does guix package -u try to rebuild Icecat?

Having a name and a version is not sufficient.  Guix is only concerned
with derivations and their contents.  So if any dependency of Icecat has
changed this causes a rebuild of Icecat, even if you already happen to
have a different variant of it that shares the name and version string.

--
Ricardo