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On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 03:43:32PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I poked around a bit. Debian achieves the smaller size by referring to
> data rather than copying it around, and only including delta changes.
> Hopefully we can copy their technique.

We are discussing it on #guix. I think that Debian just packages the
sources and then builds only what is requested by users, so my
comparison may be moot.