Marius Bakke writes: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Marius Bakke writes: >> >>> The branch currently represents 676 commits by 26 people. Some >>> highlights from this round: >>> >>> * Guix runs natively on GNU/Hurd. >>> * Guix System can be cross-compiled for foreign architectures. >>> * The distribution is built with Guile 3.0. >>> * GNOME 3.34 (on a separate branch, will get merged shortly). >> >> These are exciting changes! Let's also not forget: >> >> * for x86 and x86_64: another reduction of the bootstrap binary seed by >> roughly %0%, to ~60MB! > > I knew I was forgetting something important! Thanks for the reminder.
:-) > For those unaware, this means that the set of trusted binaries at the > root of the package graph from which everything else derives is only 60 > MiB (on i686 and x86_64). The set no longer includes GCC, binutils, or > glibc! > For more information, see jannekes blog post: > > https://www.joyofsource.com/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50.html For the record...it's even better: The GCC, binutils and glibc removal mentioned above is already in master; so our next release will bootstrap from ~135MB like blog post mentions! The Core-updates bootstrap (code named "Scheme-only bootstrap") removes Awk, Bash, the GNU Core Utilities, Grep, Gzip, Sed, and Tar. and replaces them with Gash and Gash-Utils! janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
