Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Pierre,

> ambrevar pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository guix.
>
> commit 0e8b91dbc45306984d682307d8b40b0e323bb4be
> Author: Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden>
> Date:   Thu Sep 5 11:53:52 2019 +0200
>
>     gnu: next: Compress the executable.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/web-browsers.scm (next)[arguments]: Compressing the 
> executable
>       brings it from about 95 MiB to 22 MiB.

I think this commit should be reverted.

Here’s why.  Before your commit:

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After your commit:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
./pre-inst-env guix gc --references 
/gnu/store/sypf1iq80b2i192jp0mxm43bk6dj6fcc-next-1.3.1
/gnu/store/4sqps8dczv3g7rwbdibfz6rf5jlk7w90-gcc-5.5.0-lib
/gnu/store/a0rffysgyr66q5fjgm1iibjm4ma1jbk3-next-1.3.1-lib
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/gnu/store/sypf1iq80b2i192jp0mxm43bk6dj6fcc-next-1.3.1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This means that “guix gc” will collect more than it should, leaving
users with a broken Next browser.

-- 
Ricardo