[bug#28690] provide a lib output for boost

[Thomas Danckaert via Guix-patches <guix-patches@gnu.org>]

On 2022-06-23 12:01, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2022 at 03:30, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 16:45, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 03 Oct 2017 at 17:34, Dave Love <dave.love@manchester.ac.uk> 
>>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 at 09:19, Thomas Danckaert 
>>> <post@thomasdanckaert.be> wrote:
> 
>>> This patch #28690 [1] is about adding an output to boost.  The aim is 
>>> to
>>> reduce the closure size.
>>> 
>>> The last message if from Dec. 2017 and indicates some issues.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28690>
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Since some work remains and it is not clear if it is worth to complete
>> such work about adding more outputs to boost, I plan to mark this 
>> report
>> as ’donewontfix’.  Let me know if it is worth to keep it open.
> 
> Any objection closing?  If not, I will close it in 2 weeks.

I'm no longer a very active contributor (or user :/), so not sure I'm 
the right person to judge this.  Reducing boost package size is a nice 
thing to do, but I'm not going to do the necessary work of building all 
(or at least a significant subset of) boost reverse dependencies to 
check if the approach above works, or if more changes are necessary.

I guess someone can always pick up the patch again when they feel the 
need for a smaller boost package.

Thomas