From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyyce-0007uR-FG for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:43:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyycY-0007Yl-PF for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:43:08 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyycY-0007YR-M2 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:43:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eyycY-0005Ru-GS for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:43:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#30864] mailutils: fix TODO note and build with mariadb sql In-Reply-To: <20180319205014.xpdwnfop6etcappz@abyayala> Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <20180319205014.xpdwnfop6etcappz@abyayala> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:42:09 +0100 Message-ID: <871sgcibfy.fsf@inria.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: ng0 Cc: 30864@debbugs.gnu.org Hello, ng0 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=E2=80=99s multiplied by 4.5, so I=E2=80=99d rather not do it, especial= ly since it doesn=E2=80=99t contribute to a core functionality of Mailutils AFAIK. That said, the main problem here is the size of mariadb (and mysql), which take 200=E2=80=93300=C2=A0MiB alone (not the closure). We can revisi= t this issue when we=E2=80=99ve made them smaller. How does that sound? Ludo=E2=80=99.