On 24-10-2022 18:08, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
Hello Guix, [...] The result is that most packages got slightly bigger and this broke the camel’s back. From what Tobias (Cc) wrote, he used the highest compression settings. So it seems nothing can be done to make the install iso smaller than 700MB and [...]
IIUC, (C) packages in Guix are often compiled with -O2 (and sometimes without optimisation, if upstream doesn't set any flags and Guix forgets to set some optimisation flags manually). I think -Os would be worth investigating.
>477K /gnu/store/2b3blhwbag1ial0dhxw7wh4zjxl0cqpk-pkg-config-0.29.2>2.4M /gnu/store/3k1h2ifn12rs9a06arpvqzrz5k7bwqm1-linux-libre-headers-5.10.35
I don't think a reference should be kept to those. Maybe it can be eliminated.
>302K /gnu/store/6ab3j98gcd02882d1jp9w6kv40fgyspf-wayland-1.20.0 Given that our installer is a TUI, this one looks surprising to me. Likewise for cairo and opus. Greetings, Maxime.
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