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From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A plan for parameterized packages
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 22:24:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201115222429.40243606@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201115214658.41223d15@scratchpost.org>

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:46:58 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

> Hi Ludo,
> 
> nice feature!
> 
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 17:33:28 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > An important question: do we have examples of packages for which
> > we’d like to have parameters?
> 
> For the embedded/flash rom side:
> 
> * Enable/disable building the documentation.  I really don't need a
> 40 MiB manual stored onto a 16 MiB firmware flash chip.  If that's
> better done as an extra output, fair enough.
> ......

Alpine already achieves an incredibly tiny install size by splitting
packages into many outputs. We could and should do the same.
As far as I know, they do not have parameterized packages.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-15 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-15 16:33 A plan for parameterized packages Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-15 17:30 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-11-15 17:40   ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-11-15 17:44   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-15 18:09     ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:50     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 12:03       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-16 14:05         ` zimoun
2020-11-15 17:37 ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:54   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-15 18:51 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-11-15 20:46 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-11-15 21:16   ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:25     ` Make mutiple packages from outputs (Was: A plan for parameterized packages) 宋文武
2020-11-16 14:53       ` Make mutiple packages from outputs Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 15:10       ` Make mutiple packages from outputs (Was: A plan for parameterized packages) zimoun
2020-11-15 21:24   ` raingloom [this message]
2020-11-16  1:54     ` A plan for parameterized packages Ryan Prior
2020-11-16  5:38       ` Clozure size zimoun
2020-11-18  1:30     ` A plan for parameterized packages Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-11-20 11:39       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-20 14:38         ` zimoun
2020-11-20 19:44         ` Christopher Baines
2020-11-16 14:51   ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-17 14:25 Stephen Christie
2020-11-17 15:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-17 18:13   ` Stephen Christie

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