On November 20, 2020, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> … what you’re doing here suggest that ‘guix pack’ should indeed create

> those files.



Oh I think it should be an option. Many Docker containers do not need

those things, but it would be great to have the option to include them.



Another option that would be nice, for the sake of `guix deploy` and

`guix pack`, is to produce a static build. I've tried adjusting some

Guix packages to produce static builds and seen dramatic reduction in

bundle sizes. I've brought up those observations in IRC and from those

convos I know most people aren't interested in static builds, but for

deployments to a cluster, a tiny container image with a single static

binary in it can be just the thing you want. This maybe plays into the

"parametric packages" thread that's happening in parallel, because I

could see offering this as a "static?" parameter on packages that

support it.