Hi Cayetano, I personally find the topic very relevant; I’d go as far as saying that in this day and age, it is relevant, whether we want it or not.
Quick comments… Cayetano Santos <[email protected]> skribis: > First, tests: some take ages to execute. Do we really need this ? I think so; this is not where I would cut on resource consumption, because normally tests are run only once, by the build farm, and not on each person’s computer. Now, it’s possible that there are invididual cases where we could arrange to skip expensive tests of a package’s test suite without compromising on quality assurance. This has to be done on a case-by-case basis probably. > Then, package size: ‘emacs-calibredb’ is 5 GB. This is not an > exception, but rather the norm, I’m afraid. Oh yes. This has been bothering me forever :-) and that’s why ‘guix size’ has existed almost since day 1, with contribution guidelines telling users to pay attention to that (info "(guix) Submitting Patches"). But clearly, this hasn’t really worked, and here we are today. Maybe one thing we can do is to organize an on-line hackathon where we’d team up to focus specifically on this issue for one or two days? There’s already a call for action in <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/938#issuecomment-8593863> that could be used as a starting point. If someone organizes this before soon enough, we could even report back during the Guix Days. Thanks, Ludo’.
