Quiliro writes: > El Thu, 23 Mar 2017 22:39:52 -0700 > Chris Marusich escribió: > >> By the way, in case you were wondering, one reason why we don't put >> the sources for every package into the Guix source tree is because >> that would make the Guix source tree prohibitively large. The >> transitive closure of sources for GNU Hello alone weighs in at 1750 >> MiB (wow!) when uncompressed. And that's only for those specific >> versions of the source files. > > How much space would the sources for every package in compressed > format take? According to 'guix size', the total size of the compressed sources for hello is 213.3 MiB, which is still quite large: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix size $(guix build --sources=transitive hello) store item total self /gnu/store/51f2f2ck80migsfr2hwy4ds30966lifi-linux-libre-4.4.18-gnu.tar.xz 81.1 81.1 38.0% /gnu/store/z2s847iq14psryslylm1x4k71b0vx4ng-gcc-4.9.4.tar.xz 66.3 66.3 31.1% /gnu/store/iv2nz8r001lpric4kr2xq3459zwl8051-binutils-2.27.tar.xz 18.9 18.9 8.9% /gnu/store/z8mm3izh1hgllm6mlqzycsrx5nfkvhxi-glibc-2.24.tar.xz 13.7 13.7 6.4% /gnu/store/xwanyg9972rpznx89ja38v01c8483392-bash-4.4.tar.gz 8.9 8.9 4.2% /gnu/store/8dqf59312llnmln89ccas1saq0z4qwi7-coreutils-8.25.tar.xz 5.5 5.5 2.6% /gnu/store/vgs8flhpxbkgx0hx54hnihpai7lma72j-gawk-4.1.4.tar.xz 2.3 2.3 1.1% /gnu/store/cz1b1hn763zppafmlxsrlj7fnxa8zcna-tar-1.29.tar.xz 1.9 1.9 0.9% /gnu/store/m9jym12mhczjrslpycwi6ipw57v849pa-gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz 1.8 1.8 0.9% /gnu/store/76q5cqkqrx7paxhq27m3izag07n1vjs4-findutils-4.6.0.tar.xz 1.7 1.7 0.8% /gnu/store/1pcksb758j9v7srain0k3fqp57h9gwmj-xz-5.2.2.tar.gz 1.4 1.4 0.7% /gnu/store/rbaa5s5jpy91npas89q3p8yasrc6mr1h-diffutils-3.5.tar.xz 1.3 1.3 0.6% /gnu/store/5q4yicgzxrv13gq4rai6h07s7xp75ws6-grep-2.25.tar.xz 1.3 1.3 0.6% /gnu/store/xg7ir7g2yvxj9ixmgy2kfds690h3f6gg-mpfr-3.1.4.tar.xz 1.1 1.1 0.5% /gnu/store/2g7nf5h6hnsz1sharnqxfjz9m6k7224z-make-4.2.1.tar.xz 1.1 1.1 0.5% /gnu/store/g0mffc9c0nxbwf0a6j0akh0dvkd2sn6w-sed-4.2.2.tar.xz 0.8 0.8 0.4% /gnu/store/bjpalrv9f49d2k40p7ga0y6dwdys9w5j-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz 0.7 0.7 0.3% /gnu/store/r56rrdk6h0zwb1d2y28q3bk71n73z84m-file-5.28.tar.gz 0.7 0.7 0.3% /gnu/store/iaigwb3k7fg0v8zrwlb4yhrdsgin6ir7-patch-2.7.5.tar.xz 0.7 0.7 0.3% /gnu/store/f63c6mjqqai6xwypx5qslvqc2d302yn5-gzip-1.8.tar.xz 0.7 0.7 0.3% /gnu/store/hbdalsf5lpf01x4dcknwx6xbn6n5km6k-hello-2.10.tar.gz 0.7 0.7 0.3% /gnu/store/y9akh452n3p4w2v631nj0injx7y0d68x-mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz 0.6 0.6 0.3% total: 213.3 MiB --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Chris