bug#28690: provide a lib output for boost

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 13:35, post@thomasdanckaert.be wrote:
> On 2022-06-23 12:01, zimoun wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Feb 2022 at 03:30, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 16:45, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> This patch #28690 [1] is about adding an output to boost.  The aim is to
>>>> reduce the closure size.
>>>> The last message if from Dec. 2017 and indicates some issues.
>>>>
>>>> 1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28690>

>>> Since some work remains and it is not clear if it is worth to complete
>>> such work about adding more outputs to boost, I plan to mark this report
>>> as ’donewontfix’.  Let me know if it is worth to keep it open.

>> Any objection closing?  If not, I will close it in 2 weeks.

> I'm no longer a very active contributor (or user :/), so not sure I'm the
> right person to judge this.  Reducing boost package size is a nice thing to
> do, but I'm not going to do the necessary work of building all (or at least a
> significant subset of) boost reverse dependencies to check if the approach
> above works, or if more changes are necessary.

I agree that the closure of boost deserve more love.

> I guess someone can always pick up the patch again when they feel the need for
> a smaller boost package.

Well, I am in favor to close it because it requires some work for
rebasing, etc. and the pending patches are such large that I am doubtful
people wanting to work on reducing the closure of boost will start to
look here. :-)


Cheers,
simon