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bug#31836: Installing bc downloads ghc


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#31836: Installing bc downloads ghc
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:34:47 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello reepca,

Caleb Ristvedt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Pretty much what the title says. I tried installing bc and it downloaded
> ghc, among other things. I was curious how this came to be, so I ran

As discussed on IRC, this can happen if the profile contains ghc-*
packages.  When that is the case, a “profile hook” triggers, which
regenerates GHC’s package cache.  See (guix profiles).

I understand it looks weird, but it’s “expected.”

HTH!

Ludo’.





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