From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47448)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1eyyv0-0005gO-Sp
	for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:02:07 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1eyyuw-00017N-Qn
	for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:02:06 -0400
Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39003)
	by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16)
	(Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>)
	id 1eyyuw-00017C-N0
	for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:02:02 -0400
Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2)
	(envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1eyyuv-0007rN-NR
	for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:02:02 -0400
Subject: [bug#30864] mailutils: fix TODO note and build with mariadb sql
Resent-Message-ID: <handler.30864.B30864.152172011330199@debbugs.gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:01:40 +0000
From: ng0 <ng0@n0.is>
Message-ID: <20180322120140.kai2m3y5qnuludpl@abyayala>
References: <20180319205014.xpdwnfop6etcappz@abyayala>
	<871sgcibfy.fsf@inria.fr>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In-Reply-To: <871sgcibfy.fsf@inria.fr>
List-Id: <guix-patches.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/guix-patches>,
	<mailto:guix-patches-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/>
List-Post: <mailto:guix-patches@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:guix-patches-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-patches>,
	<mailto:guix-patches-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org
Sender: "Guix-patches" <guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org>
To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: ng0 <ng0@n0.is>, 30864@debbugs.gnu.org

Ludovic Courtès transcribed 700 bytes:
> Hello,
> 
> ng0 <ng0@n0.is> skribis:
> 
> > mailutils had this note to build it with sql.
> >
> > I picked mariadb, the attached patch builds alright.
> >
> > But:
> > Why do we want this? mariadb adds *very much* to the size of the package and its
> > dependencies.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > total: 158.8 MiB
> 
> [...]
> 
> > total: 695.8 MiB
> 
> That’s multiplied by 4.5, so I’d rather not do it, especially since it
> doesn’t contribute to a core functionality of Mailutils AFAIK.

Yep, it's not very good.

> That said, the main problem here is the size of mariadb (and mysql),
> which take 200–300 MiB alone (not the closure).  We can revisit this
> issue when we’ve made them smaller.
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> Ludo’.

It's okay with me.
Do you think we should close this bug for now?
-- 
A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588
https://n0.is