Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > > Would it make sense to add a “mesa-minimal” package and a minimal > > variant of xorg-server where any mesa package is rewritten to be > > mesa-minimal? > > Judging by the number of packages that include 'mesa' as an input, it > won't be so easy. Search for ",mesa" in gnu/packages/*.scm, and see the > output of "guix refresh -l mesa". The xf86-video-* packages include > 'mesa' as input, and many other packages as well.
We could somehow provide a way (maybe an xorg-service option) to rewrite the package graph so that it uses mesa-minimal. WDYT? > I won't block this, but I will take this opportunity to mention that for > those of us who wish to build GuixSD from source code on our own > machines, life is becoming increasingly uncomfortable as more and more > optional features are added to our core packages. This is true, but it’s a problem that concerns GNU/Linux in general; I don’t think Guix is really special in this regard. I mean, in the good ol’ GCC 2.95 and GTK+ 2.x days, when D-Bus and its friends didn’t exist, there was much less to build, right? :-) Ludo’.
