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> define resource hunger, please.

Mainly the amount of time it takes to update things. Almost every time, it compiles a ton of stuff, mainly because the build farms can't catch up I think.

I'm a bit out of the loop so I don't know whether this is still a fundamental issue or an incidental one related to the above (build farms) but I think running guix pull still compiles stuff every single time? I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be possible to pull without compiling a significant amount of Scheme code locally.

After pull is done, it's supposed to be able to get everything from the substitute servers but in my experience this still fails very often, falling back to local compilation.

I would manage to live with it (as I did back when I used it regularly) if it weren't for the political issues. I've considered #NixOS but their community seems equally toxic if not more so.