From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love Subject: Re: Tiny Guix (and containers) Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:11:49 +0000 Message-ID: <87po8vwife.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> References: <20171025081846.GA28005@thebird.nl> <87a80776g7.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> <87zi80ra85.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eBj4E-0000Am-2S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:12:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eBj49-00018s-3s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:12:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zi80ra85.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Court\=E8s\?\= \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:55:38 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Another reason is that splitting is just part of the story. Often, it=E2= =80=99s > not moving out 10=C2=A0KB of header files that really helps; rather, it= =E2=80=99s > stripping the dependency graph. Oh, sure, and that probably isn't the reason for convention of splitting development stuff out (though keeping the number of files down may have some advantage).