Re: Packages depending on (guix build syscalls)

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

[...]

>> It is great to have ‘font-abattis-cantarell’ built from source (since
>> commit 97766323bc6e2b4dcfba4d6b46749a4280bca709), but it’s costly.
>> 
>> There’s probably not much we can do, unless the python-afdko -> icedtea
>> dependency is optional.
>> 
>> Ideas?
>
> I looked into this one since it was causing mate to not appear for
> i686-linux. I wasn't able to remove the java dependency for the font,
> generating the font explicitly imports cffsubr. Python-cffsubr needs
> python-afdko for the 'tx' command. I suppose we could re-bundle it but I
> haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet.
>
> Or we could just make that font optional.

The later sounds easiest, but is it really problematic to have Java as a
transitive native input to GNOME?  I mean, it already depends on Rust,
and OpenJDK builds orders of times faster than Rust.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim