Re: GuixSD and free hardware

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015, at 17:51, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Along these lines, it might be interesting if we can get more of the
> guix "core" packages in Guix paired down in size.  It's unlikely that
> I'm going to be building packages on a neo900 or etc, but I might want
> all my small devices in my house to be running Guix, in an ideal world.
> I think if I can build the profiles for all my devices and then splat
> them across my network, that might be pretty great.  Obviously the "guix
> deploy" stuff will help there (sorry, yes, I will be getting to helping
> on it soon...) but iirc many of our base packages are pretty large,
> mostly because they contain more manuals and etc than needed.

A lot of packages already put the documentation in separate outputs.

For example, see gnu/packages/libx11.scm (any formatting problems are
the fault of my copying and pasting:
[...]
    (outputs '("out"
               "doc"))                            ;8 MiB of man pages +
               XML
[...]