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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2021-05-28 16:10:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2021-05-28 23:04:43 +0200 |
| commit | 22f95a09eb9f136e59e2c2588a2c28a449155202 (patch) | |
| tree | 31ff75b7f19db316e1e5a198288bc644b7d89de1 /doc | |
| parent | f8c4437f0f60f24031170b16482b1d4fc4632918 (diff) | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e8b0485f78..52c263f7a4 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}. |