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Hi!

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 at 16:18, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> It would also be pretty bad for closure size:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ guix size guile-git | tail -1
>> total: 106.6 MiB
>> $ guix size guile-git git-minimal | tail -1
>> total: 169.8 MiB
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> It=E2=80=99s also not clear concretely how we=E2=80=99d add that depende=
ncy.  Try
>> invoking =E2=80=98git=E2=80=99 from $PATH and print a warning if it does=
n=E2=80=99t work?
>> But then, what about applications like Cuirass and hpcguix-web?
>
> I think we can rely on something like,
>
>     guix shell -C git-minimal -- git gc

We=E2=80=99re talking about the implementation of a cache (meant to speed up
operations), that would actually fill said cache plus do a whole bunch
of expensive operations?  Nah.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.