Hi, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Thoughts? How do other distros deal with this? Are we missing some >> trick to compress locale data? > > I noticed that downloading glibc-locales, it's 10.8 MiB. On disk, the > store item is ~220 MiB. I'm not sure how guix size calculates 917 MiB. Oh, this is due to hard links: nars don’t support hard links, so the same thing is repeated several times. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix archive --export glibc-locales |wc -c 961328272 $ du -hsl $(guix build glibc-locales) 939M /gnu/store/03nvilh2x4z07dxv7h13gh986vvgpnsf-glibc-locales-2.29 $ du -hs $(guix build glibc-locales) 220M /gnu/store/03nvilh2x4z07dxv7h13gh986vvgpnsf-glibc-locales-2.29 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (It does mean that we should replace hard links with symlinks, like we do for ‘git’.) Doing that with the full set of UTF-8 locales I mentioned in my previous message, I see: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ du -hsl /gnu/store/p0knl9ggxk91x87ww702g2x78jxy1vgf-glibc-utf8-locales-2.29 870M /gnu/store/p0knl9ggxk91x87ww702g2x78jxy1vgf-glibc-utf8-locales-2.29 $ du -hs /gnu/store/p0knl9ggxk91x87ww702g2x78jxy1vgf-glibc-utf8-locales-2.29 193M /gnu/store/p0knl9ggxk91x87ww702g2x78jxy1vgf-glibc-utf8-locales-2.29 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- To compare to: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ du -hs $(guix build glibc-utf8-locales) 6.1M /gnu/store/n79cf8bvy3k96gjk1rf18d36w40lkwlr-glibc-utf8-locales-2.29 $ du -hsl $(guix build glibc-utf8-locales) 15M /gnu/store/n79cf8bvy3k96gjk1rf18d36w40lkwlr-glibc-utf8-locales-2.29 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Thanks, Ludo’.
