Minimal Guix Containers

[Peter Polidoro]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:12, Simon Tournier 
<zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, the images generated by Guix cannot considered as minimal. 
> :-)

Usually I am grateful that Guix packages are "maximal".

It would be wonderful, though, if some magical "--minimal" command 
existed when creating a Guix container to make it the smallest 
possible size, leaving out documentation and all extras that are 
not strictly necessary.

I assume that is impossible to calculate and a minimal version of 
each package would have to be manually specified using only 
minimal versions of all dependencies so this will never exist.

Guix is already such a huge improvement over Dockerfiles, but such 
an option would make it really phenomenal.

Just wishful thinking.