>lun. 08 déc. 2025 at 15:27, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
This is why I’m thinking a bout something as simple as:
guix build qucs-s
/gnu/store/lfg34wzx83mjla81kh38yjpx0r7xq43i-qucs-s-25.2.0 total : 2749.2
Mio
or
guix lint qucs-s
...
total : 2749.2 Mio
to make this explicit, the previous total being the output of ’guix size’.
> 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.
Why not ? Personally, I’m mostly concerned about a long term, everyday
effort towards reducing the size of packages when possible.
C.
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