From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "alírio eyng" <alirioeyng@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 14:33:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160502183334.GB10321@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ffcgap8.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 09:50:43AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> FWIW, until recently Nixpkgs didn’t use multiple outputs much (info
> "(guix) Packages with Multiple Outputs"). Lately they merged a change
> to use them very aggressively. So for instance, GNU libidn, which takes
> 800 KiB in total, has no less than 5 outputs:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
>
> I think this is going a bit too far. :-)
I agree. The time spent by humans figuring out which output to use will
probably never be "earned back" by the bandwidth and disk savings in
that case.
> I think the approach should be to profile packages with ‘guix size’ and
> to act mostly on a case-by-case basis.
Case-by-case, as with most things!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-02 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-28 8:45 Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages alírio eyng
2016-04-29 18:31 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-29 23:36 ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-30 6:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-05-02 7:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-02 9:33 ` ng0
2016-05-02 18:33 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-05-06 2:45 ` alírio eyng
2016-05-06 6:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-05-06 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-06 20:12 ` Andreas Enge
2016-05-07 0:32 ` John Darrington
2016-05-01 3:00 ` alírio eyng
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-04-24 13:22 Hartmut Goebel
2016-04-24 16:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-04-24 18:57 ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-24 22:13 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-04-28 11:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-28 11:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-28 16:04 ` Leo Famulari
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