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bug#58760: Guix System iso too big for cdrom again
From: |
Maxime Devos |
Subject: |
bug#58760: Guix System iso too big for cdrom again |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:14:35 +0200 |
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On 24-10-2022 18:08, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
Hello Guix,
[...] The result is that most
packages got slightly bigger and this broke the camel’s back. From what
Tobias (Cc) wrote, he used the highest compression settings.
So it seems nothing can be done to make the install iso smaller than
700MB and [...]
IIUC, (C) packages in Guix are often compiled with -O2 (and sometimes
without optimisation, if upstream doesn't set any flags and Guix forgets
to set some optimisation flags manually). I think -Os would be worth
investigating.
>477K /gnu/store/2b3blhwbag1ial0dhxw7wh4zjxl0cqpk-pkg-config-0.29.2
>2.4M
/gnu/store/3k1h2ifn12rs9a06arpvqzrz5k7bwqm1-linux-libre-headers-5.10.35
I don't think a reference should be kept to those. Maybe it can be
eliminated.
>302K /gnu/store/6ab3j98gcd02882d1jp9w6kv40fgyspf-wayland-1.20.0
Given that our installer is a TUI, this one looks surprising to me.
Likewise for cairo and opus.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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