From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A plan for parameterized packages
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 22:24:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201115222429.40243606@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201115214658.41223d15@scratchpost.org>
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:46:58 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
> Hi Ludo,
>
> nice feature!
>
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 17:33:28 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > An important question: do we have examples of packages for which
> > we’d like to have parameters?
>
> For the embedded/flash rom side:
>
> * Enable/disable building the documentation. I really don't need a
> 40 MiB manual stored onto a 16 MiB firmware flash chip. If that's
> better done as an extra output, fair enough.
> ......
Alpine already achieves an incredibly tiny install size by splitting
packages into many outputs. We could and should do the same.
As far as I know, they do not have parameterized packages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-15 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-15 16:33 A plan for parameterized packages Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-15 17:30 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-11-15 17:40 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-11-15 17:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-15 18:09 ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 12:03 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-16 14:05 ` zimoun
2020-11-15 17:37 ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-15 18:51 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-11-15 20:46 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-11-15 21:16 ` zimoun
2020-11-16 11:25 ` Make mutiple packages from outputs (Was: A plan for parameterized packages) 宋文武
2020-11-16 14:53 ` Make mutiple packages from outputs Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 15:10 ` Make mutiple packages from outputs (Was: A plan for parameterized packages) zimoun
2020-11-15 21:24 ` raingloom [this message]
2020-11-16 1:54 ` A plan for parameterized packages Ryan Prior
2020-11-16 5:38 ` Clozure size zimoun
2020-11-18 1:30 ` A plan for parameterized packages Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-11-20 11:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-20 14:38 ` zimoun
2020-11-20 19:44 ` Christopher Baines
2020-11-16 14:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-17 14:25 Stephen Christie
2020-11-17 15:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-17 18:13 ` Stephen Christie
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