On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 02:20:52PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Quite a few packages depend on grep to have PCRE support (e.g. freebayes).
> 
> Similarly, some packages (magit-todos) depend on git to be built with
> PCRE support.
> Compiling Git with USE_LIBPCRE2 would fix this.
> 
> I understand that adding PCRE support to those packages might increase
> their closure size, which might not be desirable for such fundamental
> packages.
> 
> What about grep-minimal and git-minimal packages then?

We do actually already have a git-minimal, it's used for git-fetch
references :)

'guix size git' => 411 MiB
'guix size git pcre' => 413 MiB

'guix size grep' => 71.4 MiB
'guix size grep pcre' => 71.4 MiB

Looks like a good idea to me.

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