From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Size of bare-bones guixsd
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 19:05:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwRq=oVP5JuWR1O7-LzhuAxYZNbUOyUvBPANOeBM5TjdSZDCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160805151644.GA17626@jasmine>
>> 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?
I know these probably come from indirect dependencies of other tools,
for advanced features... (please remember that I come with a long
background of gentoo negated use flags)
libXpm, cairo, libxcb, randrproto, glibmm, randrproto, mkfontscale,
inputproto, imagemagick, xtrans, gtk+, compositeproto, cups*, inkscape,
xextproto, freetype, libXrender, gdk-pixbuf, libxcb, libXdmcp, libXaw,
xcb-proto, pixman, netpbm, libvorbis, libcddb, openjpeg, atkmm, libxmu,
libx11, etc...
And I may have missed some...
Some come probably as "guix graph" deps...
I was thinking of bare-bone just as what that name implies, just what is
needed for booting, guix dependencies, and nothing more...
As if I was designing an embedded system with no place in the flash
for anything superfluous, maybe that was a bad assumption...
>> 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.
I'll first try to remove some from the %base-packages list and see what is
trimmable...
> By the way, people usually ask about *adding* things to the bare-bones
> example :)
Maybe make a real bare-bones, and then based upon this one, a more "usable"
CLI-system, with more stuff added.
--
Vincent Legoll
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-05 17:06 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
2016-08-05 17:05 ` Vincent Legoll [this message]
2016-08-30 12:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
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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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