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Subject: Re: [PATCH] R dependencies
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:20:43 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
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Now the closure of R is down from 5 GiB to 518 MiB, which is cool.  :-)

It seems we might be able to go further, because somewhere there are
presumably unwanted dependencies being retained, such as Texinfo & Perl,
ld-wrapper & Binutils, Gawk and other build-time tools:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix size r
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'http://hydra.gnu.org'... 100=
.0%
store item                                                       total    s=
elf
/gnu/store/yqng7qmf0jrq8lkbivqpifx83rqmym61-r-3.2.2                518.0   =
 55.5  10.7%
/gnu/store/2x8w06phz69hq7yr457xy0n46vws0wpl-texinfo-6.0            154.5   =
  8.0   1.5%
/gnu/store/mziw9w93gxb1qd0ikxj6zx2w238995lg-ld-wrapper-0           152.3   =
  0.0   0.0%
/gnu/store/gjs5zk5366a4bdwyy6vv1x8cfx7b092m-perl-5.16.1            140.2   =
 49.2   9.5%
/gnu/store/chc76a6vpwl2cb7pq1qwl6b1ws6xagqv-cairo-1.14.2           135.8   =
  6.1   1.2%
/gnu/store/jcdqm0221hcq39bbbxa6z2kmkfhy27r0-icu4c-55.1             125.9   =
 34.9   6.7%
/gnu/store/5ibx7chxjqr5mnmg0glsx41l85rmwp81-openblas-0.2.14        120.2   =
 60.0  11.6%
/gnu/store/ig1ibsz49ng15p0x6vlild3qfnlhwwx8-libxt-1.1.4            110.7   =
  2.7   0.5%
/gnu/store/0ah2z399hmqm5mk9arw6rlywz836j8zy-guile-2.0.11           107.9   =
 16.1   3.1%
/gnu/store/1ncynbg14adkn9a277b8zc1qjq6kswfy-glib-2.44.0            101.6   =
 13.1   2.5%
/gnu/store/xnyf5pzlwrq35qv47g3w70jagsgm1djz-libsm-1.2.2             92.3   =
  0.3   0.1%
/gnu/store/2afa3pvl8amwb4ql8xk6q8gfvwk143l5-util-linux-2.25.2       91.5   =
 10.8   2.1%
/gnu/store/xz3mf13izfr44135w0760vzxga5v0950-bash-4.3.39             87.9   =
  6.3   1.2%
[...]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It Would Be Nice=E2=84=A2 to identify where these references come from and
whether they can be discarded.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.