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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-05-28 16:10:19 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-05-28 23:04:43 +0200
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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.
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@@ -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}.