Re: substitute derivation: also substitute grafts?

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 at 12:03, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> In my scenario I have two machines, one building stuff the other only
>> substituting.  The serving machine would be the one deciding whether to
>> enforce substitutability or not.
>
> An is it too expensive for that machine to build grafts locally?

Using my old desktop from work, yes the experience is really poor;
especially for some packages where the number of grafts is sometimes
something, e.g., see [1] where grafting were longer than building.

1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/86wnud6db3.fsf@gmail.com>


Cheers,
simon