Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes:
> 22M 3x53yv4v144c9xp02rs64z7j597kkqax-gcc-5.4.0-lib
According to “du”, this is 32M on my disk. The “lib” subdir contains
both shared libraries as well as ar archives for static linking;
together they weigh in at 12MB. We may want to move them to a separate
output.
The package also contains lots of header files:
6.3M
/gnu/store/3x53yv4v144c9xp02rs64z7j597kkqax-gcc-5.4.0-lib/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.4.0/plugin/include/
Not sure what to do with those without making the use of GCC a hassle.
> 41M n6nvxlk2j8ysffjh3jphn1k5silnakh6-glibc-2.25
This package still contains a lot of locale data. The directory
“share/i18n/locales/” takes up 6.7M, and “share/locale” takes up another
4.3M. All the .a files under “lib” take up 8.7M.
> 34M nnykzgwfy8mwh2gmxm715sjxykg8qjwn-binutils-2.28
“share/locale” is 9.4M. This is a cross-cutting concern. We don’t have
a way to globally filter locales to only requested locales. Even if we
split them each into a separate output — how would you specify that you
want the “de_DE” locale in each package and not install the rest?
There seems to be some duplication with these directories:
/gnu/store/nnykzgwfy8mwh2gmxm715sjxykg8qjwn-binutils-2.28/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/
/gnu/store/nnykzgwfy8mwh2gmxm715sjxykg8qjwn-binutils-2.28/bin/
But the binaries seem to be hardlinked, so they don’t take up extra
space.
> Now it takes forever to set up the image
Have you tried disabling compression? This could be a lot faster. I
found that tar with gzip compression is terribly slow to copy things
from the store into a compressed tar archive. Disabling compression
speeds this up considerably, even though it is still rather slow.
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