Hi! Mathieu Othacehe <othac...@gnu.org> skribis:
> By reverting this commit 0eed77127592323d89f56c215a15374a1aaae110 > (introducing an extra glibc to %default-locale-libcs), it drops down to: > > 1305.5 MiB. > > Now multiple options: > > * Revert this commit. > * Find other system closure improvements. > * Up the limit to 1.5GiB. Let’s just set the ‘locale-libcs’ field in (gnu tests) so that it contains a single libc. WDYT? > * "openssh" is dragging "xauth" which drags some X libraries (but this > does not account for much). Yes, but that’s necessary for “ssh -X”, so I think we consciously made that choice long ago. > * "sudo" is dragging "python" for about 100MiB. Comes from the Python plugin added in 452244e670467afe0e8ccdfb9ca2980d5a3b4694. No idea what it buys us. > * "info-reader" is dragging "perl" (and is in fact the same size as > "texinfo" because of a mistake that I introduced with > 614a1e3fa2d731d4719f03912b1b87fb4fd309cb) for about 100MiB. Ah would be nice to fix and add a #:disallowed-references flag there! > * The switch to non-canonical version of "glibc" and "coreutils" to fix > system cross-compilation in dfc8ccbf5da96a67eb1cade499f0def21e7fdb02 is > also responsible for about 100MiB. Yeah, that’s the price to pay. :-/ > I also discovered that enabling CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS, the size of > linux-libre is reduced by 63%. Woohoo! > Now, the big source of improvement could be Guix itself (278MiB without > dependencies). Yep, see my recent message on this topic. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
