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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>,
	help-guix@gnu.org, yasu <yasu@yasuaki.com>
Subject: Re: Bug? coqide missing? (in package coq, version 8.11.2)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 01:34:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pmztuyxj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A74F875-3E74-444B-94DD-ECDB4BAF1069@lepiller.eu>

Hi Julien

On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 19:53, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> guix size coq -> 869.7 MB
> guix size coq:ide -> 1557.0 MB

Yeah, but you have a high probability to have already have these
dependencies.


> Almost twice as much, because this brings in graphical
> dependencies. Separating packages to multiple outputs can reduce the
> closure size of some outputs, but if you build the package, you get
> the same number of dependencies as if there were a single output. You
> have everything to gain if you get substitutes, and nothing to lose if
> you don't have any or want to use the more expensive output. 

You loose what I wrote: more dependencies and less discoverability. :-)

I agree it reduces the closure size.  But it is not different to have
different packages using inherit, right.

Well, it seems a matter of taste. :-)

Cheers,
simon


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-21  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-20  6:11 Bug? coqide missing? (in package coq, version 8.11.2) yasu
2021-03-20 10:48 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-03-20 12:26   ` yasu
2021-03-20 16:39   ` zimoun
2021-03-20 23:53     ` Julien Lepiller
2021-03-21  0:34       ` zimoun [this message]
2021-03-21  2:04         ` Julien Lepiller
2021-03-21 12:06           ` zimoun

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