From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Tiny Guix (and containers) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:12:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20171025111231.GA28599@thebird.nl> References: <20171025081846.GA28005@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Jdl-0000mU-8p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:14:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Jdf-0003dg-1h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:14:29 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:54871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Jde-0003bb-S9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:14:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171025081846.GA28005@thebird.nl> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel Another route is to create a container using just the essential dependencies, like I did here: https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-relocatable-binary-packages/blob/master/README.org Binary with dependencies distribution down to 18Mb. Of course locales won't work ;) And yes, I am still using relocatable packages to distribute specific software for HPC... It is rather nice. Pj. --