bug#63050: "guix pull" requires graphical libraries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> We can get an X11-free Graphviz like so:
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/graphviz.scm b/gnu/packages/graphviz.scm
> index 26ee96afd4..3a5d33e662 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/graphviz.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/graphviz.scm
> @@ -94,16 +94,12 @@ (define-public graphviz
>                                    (string-append extdir
>                                                   "/libgv_guile.so"))))))))
>      (inputs
> -     (list libxrender
> -           libx11
> -           gts
> +     (list gts
>             gd
>             guile-3.0                    ;Guile bindings
> -           pango
>             fontconfig
>             freetype
>             libltdl
> -           libxaw
>             expat
>             libjpeg-turbo
>             libpng))
>
>
> The closure size reduction is substantial:
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix size graphviz | tail -1
> total: 183.6 MiB
> $ guix size graphviz | tail -1
> total: 242.3 MiB
>
> But I suspect we’d still need the full-blown variant for things like
> xdot.

Here’s a proposal:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63610

Ludo’.