Just now I notice that I might be the person contributing to most of the off-topic discussions... :O
That said, I think it would be benefical if we continue discussing this on another mailing list, please subscribe to help-guix ([1]) and resend your last message to that list. [1] <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-guix>. masonh...@gmail.com writes: > Guix seems to be building everything from source, which can take a > while. As per these instructions I tried# cd > [prefix]/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub > # guix archive --authorize < hydra.gnu.org.puband got > > guile: warning: failed to install locale > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument > > with no other output. I get that error almost every time I try to do > something with Guix and it usually works anyway. Since I got no other > errors I just kept going with$ guix build emacs --dry-run and got "The > following derivations would be built:" so apparently it did not work. > > During an installation I do see a lot of "updating list of > substitutes" messages, but I also frequently see the word "build" and > a lot of .c and .h files go by, which combined with the long > installation time makes me doubt that it is actually downloading > binaries from the substitutes and installing them.
