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Subject: Re: 01/01: hydra: Increase image sizes for USB image and Flash image.
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:30:16 +0100
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To: guix-devel@gnu.org, Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>

guix-commits@gnu.org skribis:

> commit 07c791c1104db3530eb12c918043fc3b30c093be
> Author: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
> Date:   Sun Dec 9 00:49:54 2018 +0100
>
>     hydra: Increase image sizes for USB image and Flash image.
>=20=20=20=20=20
>     * build-aux/hydra/gnu-system.scm (qemu-jobs) <usb-image>: Increase fr=
om
>     1024 MiB to 1500 MiB.
>     <flash-image>: Increase from 1024 MiB to 1500 MiB.

As discussed earlier on the list, it would be nice=E2=84=A2 to see why these
images are so big and what can be done about it.  Really, 1=C2=A0GiB is
already a lot for such a small image.

In commit 040ae1881952c90dae9478e5cfff6aad0ce950da, I ended up
increasing the image size for the tests, which is not great IMO.  I
looked at =E2=80=98guix size=E2=80=99 and couldn=E2=80=99t find any obvious=
 way to improve
things.

One problem with the installation OS is that it=E2=80=99s pulling ALSA and =
all
sorts of sound-related libraries (libsamplerate, etc.), which clearly is
unnecessary in the installation image.  That comes from the alsa-utils
udev rules.  We could remove those udev rules, but since they=E2=80=99re in
%base-services, I chose not to do that to avoid breaking everyone=E2=80=99s
config.

Food for thought!

Ludo=E2=80=99.