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* Guix size reduction work group
@ 2020-02-04 15:57 Pierre Neidhardt
  2020-02-04 16:22 ` zimoun
  2020-02-05 15:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Pierre Neidhardt @ 2020-02-04 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

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Hi!

At FOSDEM 2020 Ludovic explained to the world why Guix is better than
other container formats (to put it mildly ;p).

Possibly the only counter-argument to "Guix  > Snap / Flatpak" is
the size of the Guix containers.

I also talked to Mathieu who has been working relentlessly on
cross-compilation and embedded device support recently.  He gave a
presentation on Guix vs. Yocto at FOSDEM.  But again, the main
counter-argument is that Yocto allows for much smaller systems.  (I
think Mathieu has some figures.)

Shall we start a work group to fix the issue?

- Write a blog article to explain the issue and a detailed process on
  how to fix it.  (Embed it to the manual.)

- Improve the tooling.  In my experience, guix graph is quickly unusable
  with a high number of nodes.  Maybe d3.js could be leveraged to add a
  filtering system, or a way to click on nodes to hide them and all
  their children.

- How do we compare to Nix?

Other suggestions?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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2020-02-04 15:57 Guix size reduction work group Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-04 16:22 ` zimoun
2020-02-04 17:59   ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-05 15:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-05 16:11   ` zimoun
2020-02-07 21:35     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-07 22:31       ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-02-08 13:40         ` zimoun
2020-02-10 13:13       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-02-11 14:15         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-08 16:43   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-09 23:45     ` zimoun
2020-02-10  8:09       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-10  8:46         ` Christopher Baines
2020-02-11 14:17           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-10 10:30         ` zimoun
2020-02-10 12:33         ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-11 14:20     ` Ludovic Courtès

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