Hi,
Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2021, 18:45 +0000 schrieb bo0od:
> My bad, I meant to type 500GB (a fairly common disk size), but it
turns
> out my other laptop survives quite fine on 250. Fair enough, it's
not
> 32GB (common in phones), but then again, you'd run normally very
> different packages on embedded systems.
yeah 100+ GB thats too big, not always having this space is easy or
available.
It is common enough for desktop PCs and laptops, which is the use case
I'm talking about here. If you're hosting a server, chances also are,
that you have that much, if not more space available. For cases, in
which you have significantly less memory available, there is a bare-
bones template.
> There are several ways of optimizing for profile size, one of
which is
> to not run huge browsers like icecat. I have no idea what kind of
> system you're trying to fit into 20GB , but a hard idea thinking
it's
> the right kind.
I have debian,fedora,kali,ubuntu,trisquel/triskel,arch... all with
only
20GB space and working for testing purposes as im mostly working as
software tester.
I'm fairly certain you should be able to get test environments, that
fit this size via `guix environment', but if that's your plan, you
shouldn't do much else with the space you have. Might I ask if you're
the kind to keep a separate /home?
> What kind of advanced removal strategies are you talking about?
I didnt suggested how its done in my ticket, I gave the issue and
feature request as a solution to it but how to do it the best way i
leave this to the devs to decide not me.
"Please remove all my previous stuff whenever I upgrade a package" is a
rather specific feature request in my opinion. I don't think there is
much room for bikeshedding different implementations of it, though of
course, Debian, Arch, Gentoo etc. are all different distributions, that
produce it as a side-effect of what they're actually trying to do.
If out of ideas and nothing is available look at other distributions
and
see how its done and what can be taken from them and merge into guix
to
adopt this feature.
How did other distributions "adopt this feature" in your opinion?
Regards,
Leo