From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Paul Jewell via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Jewell <paul@teulu.org>
Subject: Re: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:37:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz7abnf2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3586bd3c-2d97-ca0d-f722-be08a7440e1e@teulu.org> (Paul Jewell via's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:44:34 +0100")
Hi,
Paul Jewell via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> skribis:
> - Can an ISO be bigger than a CD then be installed on a memory stick?
Yes, it can be installed from a memory stick, that’s probably what
everybody does.
> It strikes me that this is like King Canute holding back the
> tide. Package size growth is pretty inevitable, and even if work now
> can bring the size down to that of a CD, the same problem will occur
> in the not too distant future.
I’d like to question the extent to which this is inevitable, or at least
see what we can learn from others to try and mitigate disk usage growth.
Even from a purely practical perspective, it’s not convenient when ‘guix
pack’ creates big images that you have to carry around and your
colleague laughs at you because their Alpine image of “the same thing”
(quotes!) is half the size. ;-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-19 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-14 22:07 Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾 Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-15 5:51 ` kiasoc5
2023-01-15 8:07 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-16 2:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-16 5:17 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-16 13:27 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-17 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-15 12:56 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-15 17:00 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-01-17 16:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-17 23:05 ` zimoun
2023-01-17 23:49 ` zimoun
2023-01-18 21:04 ` Grandfathering store paths considered harmful (was: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾) Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-19 14:28 ` Grandfathering store paths considered harmful Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-19 18:10 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-19 14:14 ` Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾 Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-20 10:51 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-20 14:54 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-18 2:41 ` kiasoc5
2023-01-18 8:43 ` indieterminacy
2023-01-19 14:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-20 11:06 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-17 8:06 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-01-17 16:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-17 21:54 ` John Kehayias
2023-01-19 15:30 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-01-17 15:06 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-19 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-18 20:44 ` Paul Jewell via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-01-19 13:04 ` Joshua Branson
2023-01-19 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-01-19 16:12 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-01-19 18:07 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-20 15:30 ` Csepp
2023-01-20 17:34 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-21 12:29 ` bokr
2023-01-21 15:55 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-20 12:11 ` Simon Tournier
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