Hi, On Wed, 07 Dec 2022 at 11:33, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> wrote:
> The issue here is probably the size of the generated files: they are > huge, so if they are packaged, they will most likely take significant > resources in the Guix infrastructure. > > So what would be the way to go here? Would Guix accept patches to add > packages for these files in Guix proper? >From my point of view, the data and the code should be packaged separately; the package data using copy-build-system would be an input for the package code. > If so, does it needs to be done like with the ZFS (kernel module) > package where "#:substitutable? #f" is used to avoid redistributing > package builds? Or are other ways better for such use cases? Yes, ’#:substitutable? #f’ seems the first way to go. Cheers, simon
