zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> This size is the runtime size, right?

Yes.

> What about the "build time" size? Other said, all one needs to build
> to have xapian, i.e., the size of the full bag: starting from the
> bootstrap seed and having Guix+Xapian (vs. Guix alone).

As shows with guix graph?

This yields a small graph:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix graph --type=bag-emerged xapian | dot -Tpdf > dag.pdf
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This yields a big graph:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix graph --type=bag xapian | dot -Tpdf > dag.pdf
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I don't know how it compares to other packages.

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