Re: GuixSD and free hardware

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015, at 17:51, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Along these lines, it might be interesting if we can get more of the
>> guix "core" packages in Guix paired down in size.  It's unlikely that
>> I'm going to be building packages on a neo900 or etc, but I might want
>> all my small devices in my house to be running Guix, in an ideal world.
>> I think if I can build the profiles for all my devices and then splat
>> them across my network, that might be pretty great.  Obviously the "guix
>> deploy" stuff will help there (sorry, yes, I will be getting to helping
>> on it soon...) but iirc many of our base packages are pretty large,
>> mostly because they contain more manuals and etc than needed.
>
> A lot of packages already put the documentation in separate outputs.

Yes.  I’m sure there are many others that could benefit from such
optimizations, and we’ll get there.

For packages that take less than a few MiB in total, which is probably
the majority, we do keep documentation, which usually consists of Info
manuals and man pages, both gzipped.  I think it wouldn’t make much
sense to remove documentation for these.

But anyway, I agree that we need to pay attention to the size of
packages and the size of their closure; ‘guix size’ was added to help
with that.

Thanks,
Ludo’.