From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lm-sensors vanished
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:13:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8hhafpl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160715163418.GA3598@solar> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:34:18 +0200")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> More on lm-sensors, which we will probably need for installing the hydra
> replacement: First, the input rrdtool is not referenced in the output; could
> it be moved to native-inputs, or maybe even dropped? I tried a compilation
> without it, and it succeeded, but I did not yet check whether the result
> actually works.
To make sure, I’d suggest grepping the source of lm-sensors for any
mention of rrdtool. It might be safe to remove it.
> Second, it is extraordinarily big, which means we cannot reasonably add it
> to the installation image, and then it will take a long time to download
> during the installation:
> $ guix size lm-sensors
> /gnu/store/35655d6dqw80ziqwxn6yhszqmyknxy39-lm-sensors-3.3.5 413.2 0.5 0.1%
[...]
> /gnu/store/sjvcirri2bg7q5hlrkaywhmxllik0cfx-gcc-4.9.3 138.2 77.2 18.7%
Keep in mind that most of it is due to <http://bugs.gnu.org/23077>,
fixed in core-updates.
> Perl is needed for two scripts:
> bin/sensors-conf-convert, which
> "Convert[s] a sensors.conf file from the old (Linux 2.4, lm-sensors 2)
> symbol names to the new (Linux 2.6 or 3, lm-sensors 3) symbol names."
> and which is probably not important for GuixSD.
> And sbin/sensors-detect, which I think is needed.
OK.
> Could we maybe drop gnuplot, which seems to pull in a lot of X related
> packages?
We’d need to check what it’s used for, but maybe yes.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-16 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-15 15:40 lm-sensors vanished Andreas Enge
2016-07-15 16:11 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-15 16:16 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-15 16:23 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-15 17:24 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-15 16:34 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-16 13:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-16 13:32 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-17 13:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
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