From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Graphical GuixSD Installer Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:33:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20161216110807.GA2104@jocasta.intra> <87zijwkrw6.fsf@gnu.org> <20161216121749.GA2582@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHrhd-0006BS-H6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:33:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHrhX-0004Zw-14 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:33:32 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::230]:34173) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHrhW-0004Zo-Sm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:33:26 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x230.google.com with SMTP id q130so88875355qke.1 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 04:33:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel I assume that the main reason for people not wanting to add dependencies is because it complicates bootstrapping guix for new platforms (which I don't understand well enough yet). I don't think that you can build a gnu system that doesn't rely on ncurses or an alternative implementation. guile-ncurses (0.7MB) and guile-json (0.1MB) are hardly large enough to warrant a fuss otherwise :)