Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: >> 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’s also the problem that packages typically hardcode $localedir in binaries, which means we would need a special mechanism to decouple locale data from packages. > 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. But they do take up extra space when transmitted over the wire as nars, and in Docker/tarball packs. In general we should replace hard links with symlinks because of that (Mesa has the same problem.) >> 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. In general one wants compression though, no? I’d be curious to see how we can make it faster! Ludo’.
