>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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