* Preferring packages with smaller closures as package inputs (Was: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾)
@ 2023-01-18 14:58 Adam Faiz
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From: Adam Faiz @ 2023-01-18 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ludo, guix-devel
> Hello!
>
> Over the course of a few years, the size of our packages has apparently
> kept growing. Example:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Should packages with smaller closures be preferred as package inputs, in
the case that multiple packages implement the same interface?
For example, pkgconf is much simpler compared to pkg-config but
implements the same interface. Should it be used as an input for all
packages that need pkg-config, through a pkg-config symlink in the
pkgconf package for complete compatibility? If not, why? Are there more
important factors to consider than bootstrapping complexity?
In contrast, pkg-config has glib as a bundled dependency when it should
be unbundled. There's probably a circular dependency that needs to be
resolved but it needs to be done.
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