Am Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 06:32:42PM +0100 schrieb Yarl: > Would it be feasible and desirable to have a “sober” version and a > “complete” version for certain packages? In terms of compilation > options, inclusion of documentation, debug sections, etc => fewer > inputs.
It is not clear that this would always be a good idea. Of some packages we have regular and minimal versions (for instance, minimal is needed to bootstrap the full version; or minimal is enough as a native input for building other packages). On the level of the build farms, where most of the building is taking place, a first consequence is that there is now one more package to build. And at installation, we sometimes end up with a package depending through different paths on both of them, so in fact the size of the total installation has gone up. Andreas
