From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mp1 ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by ms11 with LMTPS id eOW6I3hXkF9LZQAA0tVLHw (envelope-from ) for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:44:56 +0000 Received: from aspmx1.migadu.com ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by mp1 with LMTPS id YIJ7H3hXkF8EbAAAbx9fmQ (envelope-from ) for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:44:56 +0000 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by aspmx1.migadu.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 320449404CA for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:55826 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVGIJ-0007DY-63 for larch@yhetil.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:44:55 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVGIA-0007DQ-Vi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:44:46 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVGI8-00071a-SE; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:44:45 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=43842 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kVGI2-0004lb-IT; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:44:40 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: zimoun Subject: Re: Size of package 'guix' References: <20200922115019.08d40bec@scratchpost.org> <20200924095904.49411b47@scratchpost.org> <87mu0g7xiu.fsf@gnu.org> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 30 =?utf-8?Q?Vend=C3=A9miaire?= an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:44:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: (zimoun's message of "Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:04:37 +0200") Message-ID: <878sbz37oa.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Guix Devel Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Scanner: scn0 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.51 X-TUID: j5hrIFoHgn5F zimoun skribis: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 11:12, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > >> > guix->libx11: graphviz@2.42.3 >> > guix->fribidi: graphviz@2.42.3 >> > guix->graphviz: graphviz@2.42.3 >> > guix->cairo: graphviz@2.42.3 >> > guix->pixman: graphviz@2.42.3 >> > guix->libjpeg-turbo: graphviz@2.42.3 >> > guix->pango: graphviz@2.42.3 >> > >> > And AFAIU, this 'graphivz' package is only used to produce the images >> > in the manual. Similarly, the package 'texinfo' which pulls *a lot* >> > could be removed. >> >> These are build-time dependencies so that should only be a problem when >> one has to build =E2=80=98guix=E2=80=99 from source. > > What do you mean by "build 'guix' from source"? I mean that it doesn=E2=80=99t matter that =E2=80=98guix=E2=80=99 depends o= n =E2=80=98graphviz=E2=80=99 at build time as long as you can get a substitute for it. IOW, =E2=80=98graphviz=E2= =80=99 is not among the references of =E2=80=98guix=E2=80=99: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix size guix |grep graphviz $ echo $? 1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ludo=E2=80=99.