Hi,

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 11:12, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:

> > guix->libx11: graphviz@2.42.3
> > guix->fribidi: graphviz@2.42.3
> > guix->graphviz: graphviz@2.42.3
> > guix->cairo: graphviz@2.42.3
> > guix->pixman: graphviz@2.42.3
> > guix->libjpeg-turbo: graphviz@2.42.3
> > guix->pango: graphviz@2.42.3
> >
> > And AFAIU, this 'graphivz' package is only used to produce the images
> > in the manual.  Similarly, the package 'texinfo' which pulls *a lot*
> > could be removed.
>
> These are build-time dependencies so that should only be a problem when
> one has to build ‘guix’ from source.

What do you mean by "build 'guix' from source"?  My point is
"guix-minimal" could be more minimal; not only remove "guile-ssh" but
also "texinfo", "grapviz", "po4a" at least and maybe more.

Cheers,
simon

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