I'd like to figure out what Guix will try to build before I run an upgrade on my netbook, so I always use --dry-run. I'm pretty sure in the past it used to show more information, but today it just showed that it will download 20 megs, without saying what package that 20 megs are for, which ones will be built, which ones are downloaded, or anything useful at all.
And now I see it's building Caja. Why did it not warn me beforehand? No idea. This should go without saying, but this is pretty bad UX. Is there something that can be done about this? The upgrade process on less powerful machines is pretty awful currently. Side note: I plan to work on a patch that adds an option to upgrade that keeps everything that would require local building at its previous version. Hopefully I won't need to use the --do-not-upgrade option after that. Right now upgrading is a multi-hour manual process, which honestly sucks. With that patch it would still take a while but at least it would run automatically.
