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02/12: doc: Spell out the implications of disabling substitutes.
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02/12: doc: Spell out the implications of disabling substitutes. |
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Fri, 28 May 2021 17:05:10 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 22f95a09eb9f136e59e2c2588a2c28a449155202
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Fri May 28 16:10:19 2021 +0200
doc: Spell out the implications of disabling substitutes.
Suggested by elb on #guix.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add note explaining the
implications of disabling substitutes.
---
doc/guix.texi | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index e8b0485..52c263f 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -787,6 +787,13 @@ To use substitutes from @code{@value{SUBSTITUTE-SERVER}}
or one of its mirrors
~root/.config/guix/current/share/guix/@value{SUBSTITUTE-SERVER}.pub
@end example
+@quotation Note
+If you do not enable substitutes, Guix will end up building
+@emph{everything} from source on your machine, making each installation
+and upgrade very expensive. @xref{On Trusting Binaries}, for a
+discussion of reasons why one might want do disable substitutes.
+@end quotation
+
@item
Each user may need to perform a few additional steps to make their Guix
environment ready for use, @pxref{Application Setup}.
- branch master updated (b1ae0f3 -> cefa260), guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 01/12: guix package: Do not warn about "missing arguments" when there's nothing to do., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 09/12: gnu-maintenance: 'generic-html' correctly handles relative release URLs., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 03/12: guix build: Emit "nothing to do" warning only when needed., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 12/12: gnu: xjobs: Add 'release-monitoring-url' property., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 07/12: gnu: Add hostscope., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 10/12: gnu: hostscope: Add 'release-monitoring-url' property., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 02/12: doc: Spell out the implications of disabling substitutes.,
guix-commits <=
- 06/12: gnu: Add mbuffer., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 11/12: gnu: Add xjobs., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 08/12: gnu-maintenance: 'release-file?' accepts 'v' prefix as in "PKG-v1.2.tgz"., guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 05/12: gnu: ipopt: Update to 3.13.4, guix-commits, 2021/05/28
- 04/12: gnu: Add cbc., guix-commits, 2021/05/28