On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 09:50:43AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > FWIW, until recently Nixpkgs didn’t use multiple outputs much (info > "(guix) Packages with Multiple Outputs"). Lately they merged a change > to use them very aggressively. So for instance, GNU libidn, which takes > 800 KiB in total, has no less than 5 outputs: > > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix > > I think this is going a bit too far. :-)
I agree. The time spent by humans figuring out which output to use will probably never be "earned back" by the bandwidth and disk savings in that case. > I think the approach should be to profile packages with ‘guix size’ and > to act mostly on a case-by-case basis. Case-by-case, as with most things!
