From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: Size of bare-bones guixsd Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 19:05:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160805151644.GA17626@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51215) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bViZM-00062x-Pp for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:06:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bViZK-0004Ya-Pc for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:05:59 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::235]:36306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bViZK-0004YW-LI for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:05:58 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x235.google.com with SMTP id v123so136118690qkh.3 for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 10:05:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160805151644.GA17626@jasmine> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Leo Famulari Cc: help-guix >> I'm wondering if there's interest in reducing the bare-bones system >> footprint, there are some X / GUI stuff in there that may / could / >> should be trimmed IMHO... > > Like what? I know these probably come from indirect dependencies of other tools, for advanced features... (please remember that I come with a long background of gentoo negated use flags) libXpm, cairo, libxcb, randrproto, glibmm, randrproto, mkfontscale, inputproto, imagemagick, xtrans, gtk+, compositeproto, cups*, inkscape, xextproto, freetype, libXrender, gdk-pixbuf, libxcb, libXdmcp, libXaw, xcb-proto, pixman, netpbm, libvorbis, libcddb, openjpeg, atkmm, libxmu, libx11, etc... And I may have missed some... Some come probably as "guix graph" deps... I was thinking of bare-bone just as what that name implies, just what is needed for booting, guix dependencies, and nothing more... As if I was designing an embedded system with no place in the flash for anything superfluous, maybe that was a bad assumption... >> And what would be the way to do this ? > > I would take a look at gnu/system.scm which, if I understand correctly, > implements the core of GuixSD. > > Variables like %base-packages and %base-firmware might be interesting to > look at. I'll first try to remove some from the %base-packages list and see what is trimmable... > By the way, people usually ask about *adding* things to the bare-bones > example :) Maybe make a real bare-bones, and then based upon this one, a more "usable" CLI-system, with more stuff added. -- Vincent Legoll