From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Gammel Holte <gammel.holte@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Optional runtime dependencies in Guix
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:28:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbkad1z7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGFCsG-vRU8fwkZEJzPY5WZDYsuBZ-UnG8Ov0DjTiySAfqntkw@mail.gmail.com> (Gammel Holte's message of "Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:18:08 +0000")
Gammel Holte <gammel.holte@gmail.com> skribis:
> I disagree here. I have very functional Arch & Gentoo installs with no
> scripting language other than Perl, which is a dependency of many GNU tools.
>
> In particular I'm doing just fine without Python. Installing everything by
> default is a bit suboptimal from a security point of view, especially if
> you're adding loads of interpreters.
Yeah, adding loads of unused code in general is not very good.
> Also, if you're working on a constrained system, the fewer packages the
> better.
Another example is the USB installation image, which we do not want to
take too much space. While tweaking it some time ago to reduce its
size, I noticed a few packages that would stealthily pull in a bunch of
big packages that were not strictly needed.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-13 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-23 3:43 Optional runtime dependencies in Guix Gammel Holte
2014-11-23 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-11 15:38 ` Gammel Holte
2015-01-12 9:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-12 11:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-01-12 16:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-12 13:11 ` 宋文武
2015-01-12 16:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-12 18:47 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-12 19:18 ` Gammel Holte
2015-01-13 17:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-01-13 17:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
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