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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Size of bare-bones guixsd
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:16:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160805151644.GA17626@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRq=qc38mSuwEej+-swCOeN5J=oZyBHN-MA7V1uupP8rfEOw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:48:16AM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if there's interest in reducing the bare-bones system
> footprint, there are some X / GUI stuff in there that may / could /
> should be trimmed IMHO...

Like what?

> And what would be the way to do this ?

I would take a look at gnu/system.scm which, if I understand correctly,
implements the core of GuixSD.

Variables like %base-packages and %base-firmware might be interesting to
look at.

By the way, people usually ask about *adding* things to the bare-bones
example :)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-05 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-05  9:48 Size of bare-bones guixsd Vincent Legoll
2016-08-05 15:16 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-08-05 17:05   ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-30 12:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-06 16:28 David Craven
2016-08-06 16:47 ` David Craven
2016-08-13 13:18 ` Vincent Legoll

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