Re: Size of package 'guix'

[Ludovic Courtès]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 11:12, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> > guix->libx11: graphviz@2.42.3
>> > guix->fribidi: graphviz@2.42.3
>> > guix->graphviz: graphviz@2.42.3
>> > guix->cairo: graphviz@2.42.3
>> > guix->pixman: graphviz@2.42.3
>> > guix->libjpeg-turbo: graphviz@2.42.3
>> > guix->pango: graphviz@2.42.3
>> >
>> > And AFAIU, this 'graphivz' package is only used to produce the images
>> > in the manual.  Similarly, the package 'texinfo' which pulls *a lot*
>> > could be removed.
>>
>> These are build-time dependencies so that should only be a problem when
>> one has to build ‘guix’ from source.
>
> What do you mean by "build 'guix' from source"?

I mean that it doesn’t matter that ‘guix’ depends on ‘graphviz’ at build
time as long as you can get a substitute for it.  IOW, ‘graphviz’ is not
among the references of ‘guix’:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix size guix |grep graphviz
$ echo $?
1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Ludo’.