>mer. 17 juin 2026 at 22:24, Simon Tournier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Cayetano, > > On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 at 14:13, Cayetano Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thoughts, alternatives or improvements ? > > IMHO, there is room of improvements! :-) > > PS: About the subject of this email “frugal computing”. > > 1. Is a project that considers “computing as a hobby”, is it frugal? > 2. Is a distribution based on a rolling-release model which tries to > package the world, it is frugal? > > The question isn’t “frugal computing“ because it’ll never be by the > current design of Guix. Therefore, the only topic is a better > optimization of the resources. ;-) Sure, it is: we have packages taking several GB reduced to a few MB with no usability impact; we have packages increasing its size by a factor of 3 with no reason. Closure size handling is a big unexplored topic: and this impacts storage, computing and bandwidth. Let’s don’t just accept that resources are free, and as you say, propose alternatives to improve current status. C.
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