Re: Size of package 'guix'

[zimoun]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 17:44, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> >> 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’:

Maybe we are not talking about the same thing. :-)

Let's take the example of building Guix on GitLab CI.  So, it needs to
fetch a lot (as Danny said) on their infra, then build and publish the
produced "artifact".  The next time it will build, then it will fetch
a lot, again.   Well, it depends on the caching facilities and maybe
these dependencies are not required for this particular use case.


Cheers,
simon