On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:41:37 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > The default use case is for users to have substitutes enabled and to > fetch binaries from a build farm. The build farm tries to build all > packages, but not all builds succeed. The daemon caches build > failures. > > This information, however, is not available for users. The default > behaviour of Guix is to attempt building the package locally. This is > fine for packages that the build farm hasn’t attempted yet, but it is > a waste of time when the build has already been attempted without > success. +1 Very good idea. Björn