On 18.09.2024 01:24, amano.kenji wrote: > Let's say that A depends on B, and B depends on C. > > With search paths, A doesn't have symlinks to B, and B doesn't have symlinks > to C. Thus, disk space is saved. > > However, adding search path patches to existing softwares is cumbersome, and > a long list of search paths results in inefficient searches. > > Let's assume that B has symlinks to C, and A has symlinks to everything in B. > This means A has symlinks to symlinks in B. Transitive symlink is probably > more efficient than search path. If A just copies symlinks from B and has > symlinks to plain files in B, then A ends up with only direct symlinks. > Direct symlinks are more efficient than transitive symlinks. > > It seems that search paths are preferred over symlinks to transitive > dependencies in gnu guix. Why? > I believe the appropriate mailing list to ask this in would be one of the Guix-specific ones, such as [email protected].
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