From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: GuixSD and free hardware Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:30:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1444951830.207930.411553873.285F886D@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <87h9lrre3n.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmrym-0007Cm-3u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:30:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmryi-0004RM-Sr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:30:36 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:53716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmryi-0004RC-O8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:30:32 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E6920697 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:30:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87h9lrre3n.fsf@dustycloud.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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 [...]