From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: 宋文武 <iyzsong@envs.net>
Cc: 65550@debbugs.gnu.org, 宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org>
Subject: [bug#65550] [PATCH] profiles: Don't propagate inputs for non-development packages.
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:01:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8ba1d6e34c74ce480f8fac9e047243b6f858ea1.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877cpedu3k.fsf@envs.net>
Am Dienstag, dem 29.08.2023 um 18:24 +0800 schrieb 宋文武:
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'd really like to avoid yet another special output, when "bin",
> > "lib", etc. have already been given clear meanings, one of which
> > strongly overlaps with "stuff that wants propagated inputs for pkg-
> > config reasons".
>
> The benefit to put headers files and libraries files into seperated
> outputs is to reduce the runtime closure size of packages, for
> example my home profile contains xfce, emacs, fonts, etc. has total
> 5GiB (by guix size), and they have 300MiB under include.
>
> calculated by:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> x=/gnu/store/0fyhci5kv03rfb9430jqs9wki2ifq5ja-profile
> guix size $x
> for i in `guix size $x`;
> do [ -e $i/include ] && du -sb $i/include;
> done | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum / 1024 / 1024 }'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> If put headers and other development files into a "dev" output, then
> those 300MiB can be saved (won't need to be substituted if
> substitutes available). Note that use a "include" output won't help
> here if you leave pkg-config files in "lib", since pkg-config files
> need reference its include and binaries need reference its libraries.
>
> So it seems to me a "dev" output is unavoidable, also both Debian and
> Alpine Linux use '-dev' packages for the same reason, it should be
> familiar to learn..
There is little point in a dev package when you blow up its size by
propagating inputs…
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-29 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-26 11:36 Don't add propagated-inputs for all outputs 宋文武
2023-08-26 13:53 ` [bug#65550] [PATCH] profiles: Don't propagate inputs for non-development packages iyzsong--- via Guix-patches via
2023-08-26 14:21 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-08-27 7:30 ` 宋文武 via Guix-patches via
2023-08-27 9:31 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-08-29 10:24 ` 宋文武 via Guix-patches via
2023-08-29 17:01 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2023-08-30 10:55 ` 宋文武 via Guix-patches via
2023-09-01 2:16 ` [bug#65550] Don't add propagated-inputs for all outputs Maxim Cournoyer
2023-08-27 7:34 ` [bug#65550] [PATCH] profiles: Don't propagate inputs for non-development packages Josselin Poiret via Guix-patches via
2023-09-01 2:34 ` [bug#65550] Don't add propagated-inputs for all outputs Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-01 12:53 ` 宋文武 via Guix-patches via
2023-09-01 15:03 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-02 0:43 ` bug#65550: " 宋文武 via Guix-patches via
2023-09-09 10:38 ` [bug#65550] [PATCH] profiles: Don't propagate inputs for non-development packages Ludovic Courtès
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