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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:07:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu0s7otg.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)

Hello!

Over the course of a few years, the size of our packages has apparently
kept growing.  Example:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine --commit=v1.2.0 -- size emacs 
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/118xpdazyylxa1rlc68h9lmh38vhxrb4-llvm-10.0.0            210.8   139.3  16.2%
/gnu/store/1qmd9achfkm1njzxf8hi86q53pmy9sxk-mesa-20.0.7            369.2   131.3  15.3%
/gnu/store/d83hc7cqgnhl1vlz1rv4ibkvaqaq2g35-emacs-27.1             859.7   106.2  12.4%
/gnu/store/18hp7flyb3yid3yp49i6qcdq0sbi5l1n-guile-3.0.2            132.8    53.2   6.2%
/gnu/store/9lckq1194qcy4a7kv8bihagd58shj7yr-gtk+-3.24.20           723.7    49.0   5.7%
/gnu/store/qizplwwgqwyq6qmz1i6jlaib5kgzrgwq-icu4c-66.1             110.2    38.1   4.4%
/gnu/store/fa6wj5bxkj5ll1d7292a70knmyl7a0cr-glibc-2.31              38.4    36.7   4.3%
[…]
total: 859.7 MiB
$ guix time-machine --commit=v1.3.0 -- size emacs 
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/g3idjpqsp2p2d163qfzskxj4k58nrx7f-llvm-11.0.0            220.0   148.6  16.9%
/gnu/store/jf269s6clr6r57p8v5c3c1qkyra6apq2-mesa-20.2.4            389.1   141.6  16.1%
/gnu/store/7nlq2v4000pw8vgj3m4vrwz072ib58xh-emacs-27.2             880.5   106.4  12.1%
/gnu/store/18hp7flyb3yid3yp49i6qcdq0sbi5l1n-guile-3.0.2            132.8    53.2   6.0%
/gnu/store/czf23hay13pp25yzrb4yq3n4gcri5r70-gtk+-3.24.24           744.3    49.1   5.6%
/gnu/store/2wqjj3mkqdvsvksndr2hpjpi7qqwi7kr-icu4c-66.1             110.2    38.1   4.3%
/gnu/store/fa6wj5bxkj5ll1d7292a70knmyl7a0cr-glibc-2.31              38.4    36.7   4.2%
[…]
total: 880.5 MiB
$ guix time-machine --commit=v1.4.0 -- size emacs 
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/i11jmrc90drpx9mc6cyb6s4pjny91qx6-emacs-28.2            1592.7   250.6  15.7%
/gnu/store/sdzfljm6san79pqiy42yp0nzmkr2bafc-mesa-21.3.8            411.6   169.6  10.6%
/gnu/store/6pdzpmxg5afzss6dlivq8z84sfa31x22-llvm-11.0.0            221.5   149.5   9.4%
/gnu/store/lphzb1z0r4kbb453rsvnw7msrxxzp5r7-libgccjit-10.3.0       244.8   128.5   8.1%
/gnu/store/pfas3c4lhr1jwkj2gl0yx8dg4xjjlp4r-mozjs-91.13.0          261.2    65.4   4.1%
/gnu/store/hy6abswwv4d89zp464fw52z65fkzr7h5-perl-5.34.0            147.7    58.6   3.7%
/gnu/store/zyqimpkmpffc24nwwqp46cicj8ss85y5-binutils-2.37          126.0    54.4   3.4%
/gnu/store/cnfsv9ywaacyafkqdqsv2ry8f01yr7a9-guile-3.0.7            129.1    52.0   3.3%
/gnu/store/4aq7hw017s9ihpm1rxpwfz28c80569z9-gtk+-3.24.30          1002.2    48.6   3.1%
/gnu/store/vaxkf8cbc7slgc3ikm5qr3815wih93w8-ghostscript-with-cups-9.54.0   219.1    39.1   2.5%
/gnu/store/bjycxjjkp1da53ijsa4hfdrz9mcgg55h-icu4c-69.1             110.7    38.0   2.4%
/gnu/store/ayc9r7162rphy4zjw8ch01pmyh214h82-glibc-2.33              76.6    36.6   2.3%
[…]
total: 1592.7 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I think something went wrong here.  :-)

In particular with Emacs itself (due to JIT + dependency on libgccjit,
Binutils, etc.?) and with GTK+ (due to mozjs in polkit?).

And then MESA and LLVM have always been problematically big.

We should do better.  I mean, it’s just a text editor, isn’t it?

Ludo’.


             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-14 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-14 22:07 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-01-15  5:51 ` Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾 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
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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