Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 03 May 2023 at 21:33, Ludovic Courtès <l...@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.



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