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bug#63050: "guix pull" requires graphical libraries
From: |
Csepp |
Subject: |
bug#63050: "guix pull" requires graphical libraries |
Date: |
Fri, 05 May 2023 15:21:16 +0000 |
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 03 May 2023 at 21:33, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>> Why does Guix require ’graphviz’ in the first place?
>>
>> It uses it to build images in the manual.
>
> Ah. So we are dragging X11 libraries as libx11 for one or two figures
> in the manual. :-)
>
> Although that’s not exactly the same as “guix pull”,
>
> guix graph guix -t bag-emerged
>
> gives an idea. Well, for example, there is a path from guix to ninja
> via graphviz.
>
> While I understand that the documentation is important, could we skip it
> for some architectures?
Or just move it to a separate output or package? That should really be
something done for all packages automatically tbh. Alpine gets this right.