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Re: Status update on 1.0
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Timothy Sample |
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Re: Status update on 1.0 |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:54:10 -0400 |
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Hi Ludo,
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> When we said we’d try to release 1.0 for FOSDEM, we were talking about
> FOSDEM *2019*, which is well over now, so I think we need to get our act
> together and complete the remaining tasks for 1.0. :-)
>
> Looking at the
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org>
> plus my own memories, here are work items that still need to be
> addressed:
>
> [...]
>
> • GDM works well for GNOME and WMs that provide a .session file.
> However it still doesn’t honor ~/.xsession. We discussed it before
> and dropped the ball. Timothy, what’s missing? I’d really like to
> make it the default.
Nothing is missing! As promised [1], in the last patch series I made
GDM run our custom “xinitrc” script instead of the built-in one. This
happened in commit 41fa9f1815685ede0d3fdc1c561d2a9cf0ffb158. :)
(I tested this now to be absolutely sure, and it works like a charm.)
> • GDM’s closure is 1.3 GiB, we should do something about it.
Yes. We should be working on “guix size gnome-shell”. It more
accurately reflects the size of GDM, and (I hope you’re sitting down) it
weighs in at 2GiB!
Fortunately, it looks like we could claw back ~400MiB by (somehow)
dropping “hplip-minimal”. It gets pulled in through the path
gdm → gnome-settings-daemon → colord → sane-backends →
hplip-minimal.
We almost certainly don’t need it for GDM. I guess removing it means
making a version of “colord” without “sane-backends”. It was introduced
in commit 4c9287432824f396d5c614c3b2287f553cd9fb90. I’ll look into
this.
GNOME Shell has a handful of silly references like “inkscape” and
“webkitgtk” that are huge and (I assume) unnecessary.
There seems to be a handful of easy wins. I would be surprised if we
could get the closure of “gnome-shell” below 1GiB, but we will see.
Also, keep in mind that a lot of these bytes will be recycled. For
instance, GTK+ 3 is ~700MiB, and chances are there will be at least one
GTK+ 3 application besides GDM.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00198.html
-- Tim
- Re: Status update on 1.0, (continued)
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- Re: Status update on 1.0, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/03/13
- Re: Status update on 1.0, L p R n d n, 2019/03/13
- Re: Status update on 1.0, L p R n d n, 2019/03/14
- Re: Status update on 1.0, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/03/15
- Re: Status update on 1.0, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/03/15
- Re: Status update on 1.0, mikadoZero, 2019/03/13
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