From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Size of bare-bones guixsd Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:16:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20160805151644.GA17626@jasmine> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVgrr-0003Uo-MY for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:17:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVgrn-0006GX-F6 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:16:58 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:57030) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVgrm-0006FK-5E for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:16:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Vincent Legoll Cc: help-guix 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 :)