From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Speeding_up_=E2=80=9Cguix_pull=E2=80=9D=3A_splitting_modules?= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 19:37:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k1657i7j.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iotjZ-0000o2-UL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:37:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iotjV-0003AO-Oy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:37:41 -0500 Received: from mail-qk1-x736.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::736]:38533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iotjV-00039h-HP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:37:37 -0500 Received: by mail-qk1-x736.google.com with SMTP id k6so302443qki.5 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:37:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87k1657i7j.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Guix Devel Hi Ricardo, On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > G=C3=A1bor once suggested an iterative approach of identifying the most > important nodes in the package graph that should be moved to their own > modules, so that we would end up with a package graph that looks less > like a hair ball. I think it would useful to get a better view on the > relationships between modules. I am not sure to correctly understand. What does it mean "the most important nodes in the package graph"? Does "important node" mean a package which appears as inputs in a lot of other packages? Cheers, simon