From: Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org>
To: ludo@gnu.org, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Preferring packages with smaller closures as package inputs (Was: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:58:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9684a5ed-609d-7ed1-02e4-3a0749a3c9fa@disroot.org> (raw)
> Hello!
>
> Over the course of a few years, the size of our packages has apparently
> kept growing. Example:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Should packages with smaller closures be preferred as package inputs, in
the case that multiple packages implement the same interface?
For example, pkgconf is much simpler compared to pkg-config but
implements the same interface. Should it be used as an input for all
packages that need pkg-config, through a pkg-config symlink in the
pkgconf package for complete compatibility? If not, why? Are there more
important factors to consider than bootstrapping complexity?
In contrast, pkg-config has glib as a bundled dependency when it should
be unbundled. There's probably a circular dependency that needs to be
resolved but it needs to be done.
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