Hi,
shall native-inputs be as complete as possible or as minimal as possible?
Background: I just stepped over a couple of packages where upstream
requires a lot of code-quality checkers which are not actually run when
running the tests. (More specific: These are Python packages demanding
tools like flake8, flake8-docstring, black, bandit.)
Now when going for minimal dependencies and minimal native-inputs,
Pro: Less dependencies, simpler dependency tree, thus less computation,
faster, less power consumption.
Con: Might need phase to remove dependencies, 'guix shell -D' will not
provide every development requirement.
Personally I tend to minimal.
WDYT?
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Hartmut Goebel
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