Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

[Tom Hiller]

Could cmake-minimal be made publicly available as a version of cmake 
without the documentation dependencies?  I believe the only thing 
preventing this is the hidden flag inherited from cmake-bootstrap.

Re: Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

[Maxime Devos]

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On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 13:17 -0400, Tom Hiller wrote:
> Could cmake-minimal be made publicly available as a version of cmake 
> without the documentation dependencies?  I believe the only thing 
> preventing this is the hidden flag inherited from cmake-bootstrap.

Technically, yes, but why?  What's the use case you have in mind?

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Re: Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

[Tom Hiller]

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I am using it with pack and the minimal requirement the size down but 
also prevents a large number of dependencies from being pulled in when 
building from source.  I attached the dependency graphviz dot to 
illustrate, the resulting png is roughly 7mb.  This is only for cmake.

On 4/1/21 4:02 PM, Maxime Devos wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 13:17 -0400, Tom Hiller wrote:
>> Could cmake-minimal be made publicly available as a version of cmake
>> without the documentation dependencies?  I believe the only thing
>> preventing this is the hidden flag inherited from cmake-bootstrap.
> Technically, yes, but why?  What's the use case you have in mind?

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Re: Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

[Maxime Devos]

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On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:36 -0400, Tom Hiller wrote:
> I am using it with pack

I assume as "guix pack cmake other-package ..."?
This seems a valid use case, although there is a
case to be made to only make the ‘fully capable’
packages visible.

In any case, you can work around this with

  guix pack -e '(@ (gnu packages cmake) cmake-minimal)' other-package ...

This works for any exported package.

Greetings,
Maxime.


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Re: Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Tom,

Tom Hiller <thrilleratplay@gmail.com> skribis:

> I am using it with pack and the minimal requirement the size down but
> also prevents a large number of dependencies from being pulled in when 
> building from source.

The latter is true and makes sense to me, but note that both take about
the same amount of space:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix size $(guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages cmake) cmake-minimal)')|tail -1
total: 215.1 MiB
$ guix size cmake | tail -1
total: 217.8 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The two are functionally equivalent (same run-time dependencies), which
I guess is the reason why ‘cmake-minimal’ isn’t public, unlike other
“-minimal” variants.

Ludo’.

Re: Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

[Tom Hiller]

That is fair.  Thank you,

On 4/2/21 12:37 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Tom Hiller <thrilleratplay@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I am using it with pack and the minimal requirement the size down but
>> also prevents a large number of dependencies from being pulled in when
>> building from source.
> The latter is true and makes sense to me, but note that both take about
> the same amount of space:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix size $(guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages cmake) cmake-minimal)')|tail -1
> total: 215.1 MiB
> $ guix size cmake | tail -1
> total: 217.8 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The two are functionally equivalent (same run-time dependencies), which
> I guess is the reason why ‘cmake-minimal’ isn’t public, unlike other
> “-minimal” variants.
>
> Ludo’.