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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-07-19 19:04:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-07-19 23:03:30 +0200 |
| commit | 4591c02ea934313638629b33ea47a148a1c38b53 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d0c0bece455d8abf1d41466f1d44546b731c693 | |
| parent | aab76e80d2d2b5cb9cece4999b632de3b29f7c8d (diff) | |
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doc: Mention zlib as an optional dependency.
* doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Mention zlib.
(Invoking guix publish): Fix typo.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 6e8fb483f2..1c4d57c811 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -546,6 +546,10 @@ Installing allow you to use the @command{guix import pypi} command (@pxref{Invoking guix import}). It is of interest primarily for developers and not for casual users. + +@item +When @url{http://zlib.net, zlib} is available, @command{guix publish} +can compress build byproducts (@pxref{Invoking guix publish}). @end itemize Unless @code{--disable-daemon} was passed to @command{configure}, the @@ -5651,7 +5655,7 @@ disable compression. The range 1 to 9 corresponds to different gzip compression levels: 1 is the fastest, and 9 is the best (CPU-intensive). The default is 3. -Note compression occurs on the fly and the compressed streams are not +Compression occurs on the fly and the compressed streams are not cached. Thus, to reduce load on the machine that runs @command{guix publish}, it may be a good idea to choose a low compression level, or to run @command{guix publish} behind a caching proxy. |