Re: Current state of cargo-build-system

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ivan Petkov <address@hidden> writes:

> However, it appears that guix still insists on building the entire package 
> even
> if we only depend on the "src" output. Is it possible to lazily build packages
> based on the type of dependency? Is this something the build system can 
> finagle,
> or is this an inherent limitation to guix?

Outputs are only generated when building the package.

If all you need is the source code, however, you can use (package-source
the-package) and use the resulting value as an input to another package.

--
Ricardo