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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Packages depending on (guix build syscalls)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:31:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkpyrlgn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1RBCrGSKNufouM4@3900XT> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:14:18 +0300")

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

[...]

>> It is great to have ‘font-abattis-cantarell’ built from source (since
>> commit 97766323bc6e2b4dcfba4d6b46749a4280bca709), but it’s costly.
>> 
>> There’s probably not much we can do, unless the python-afdko -> icedtea
>> dependency is optional.
>> 
>> Ideas?
>
> I looked into this one since it was causing mate to not appear for
> i686-linux. I wasn't able to remove the java dependency for the font,
> generating the font explicitly imports cffsubr. Python-cffsubr needs
> python-afdko for the 'tx' command. I suppose we could re-bundle it but I
> haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet.
>
> Or we could just make that font optional.

The later sounds easiest, but is it really problematic to have Java as a
transitive native input to GNOME?  I mean, it already depends on Rust,
and OpenJDK builds orders of times faster than Rust.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-27  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-21  8:15 Packages depending on (guix build syscalls) Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-21  9:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-22 19:14   ` Efraim Flashner
2022-10-27  3:31     ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-10-27  8:27       ` Efraim Flashner
2022-10-23 16:21   ` Marius Bakke
2022-11-02 10:22     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-11 17:31       ` Marius Bakke
2022-10-22 14:08 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-22 14:12 ` Maxim Cournoyer

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