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Re: Size of package 'guix'
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zimoun |
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Re: Size of package 'guix' |
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Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:04:46 +0200 |
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 17:44, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> These are build-time dependencies so that should only be a problem when
> >> one has to build ‘guix’ from source.
> >
> > What do you mean by "build 'guix' from source"?
>
> I mean that it doesn’t matter that ‘guix’ depends on ‘graphviz’ at build
> time as long as you can get a substitute for it. IOW, ‘graphviz’ is not
> among the references of ‘guix’:
Maybe we are not talking about the same thing. :-)
Let's take the example of building Guix on GitLab CI. So, it needs to
fetch a lot (as Danny said) on their infra, then build and publish the
produced "artifact". The next time it will build, then it will fetch
a lot, again. Well, it depends on the caching facilities and maybe
these dependencies are not required for this particular use case.
Cheers,
simon