Re: Petition to remove hidden flag from cmake-minimal package

[Tom Hiller <thrilleratplay@gmail.com>]

That is fair.  Thank you,

On 4/2/21 12:37 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Tom Hiller <thrilleratplay@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I am using it with pack and the minimal requirement the size down but
>> also prevents a large number of dependencies from being pulled in when
>> building from source.
> The latter is true and makes sense to me, but note that both take about
> the same amount of space:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix size $(guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages cmake) cmake-minimal)')|tail -1
> total: 215.1 MiB
> $ guix size cmake | tail -1
> total: 217.8 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The two are functionally equivalent (same run-time dependencies), which
> I guess is the reason why ‘cmake-minimal’ isn’t public, unlike other
> “-minimal” variants.
>
> Ludo’.