Re: guix depends on openldap?

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 15:32, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:

> > > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > > > $ guix graph -t bag --path guix openldap
> > > > guix@1.1.0-29.4e3ed9b
> > > > guile-ssh@0.13.1
> > > > libssh@0.9.5
> > > > cmake-minimal@3.16.5
> > > > curl@7.69.1
> > > > openldap@2.4.49
> > > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> > > >
> > > > Why does curl need an "Implementation of the Lightweight Directory
> > > > Access Protocol"?
> > >
> > > I think a better question is can cmake-minimal depend on a new
> > > curl-minimal, or does it even need curl at all?
> >
> > Looks like I was wrong, there is a curl-minimal afterall
> >
> > guix size cmake-bootstrap       199.1 MiB
> > guix size cmake-minimal
> >     with curl-minimal           198.7 MiB
> > guix size cmake-minimal         214.9 MiB
>
> HOWEVER, anything else that also depends on curl could depend on curl
> and on curl-minimal, which would be worse than what we have now. So I'd
> leave cmake-minimal with curl and remove the extra bits outlined below.

I am still confused.  Why cmake-minimal needs all the protocols that
curl supports?  What I was expecting is that cmake-minimal depends on
curl-minimal and that both packages are minimal. :-)
Because all in all, we end with a chubby Guix; which matters when
packing it (Docker or system).

All the best,
simon