Re: Minimal Guix Containers

[Josh Marshall]

Better built in support across the board at runtime code level for feature
detection and use would transparently do this.  Alas, C.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 3:53 PM Peter Polidoro <peter@polidoro.io> wrote:

> 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.
>
>