Hi, In addition to Edouard’s answer. ;-)
On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 21:00, Todor Kondić <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, I note I'm getting ~10 GiG image for a flimsy program depending > on R and shiny. Somehow that doesn't feel right. :) Well, it is a complicated topic. ;-) One thing is to carefully examine the graph and then identify unnecessary (potentially) dependencies, i.e., somehow create variant packages where the graph is drastically cut. For instance, the package ’r-minimal’ brings TeXlive (mainly for doc) and maybe it is not necessary for your use-case. You can use “guix size” to identify the items. On the other hand, “guix pack” can be optimized. For instance using Docker layers, see: <https://storage.googleapis.com/nixdoc/nixery-layers.html> Chris did some work in this direction, IIRC. Maybe a patch is floating around. :-) All the best, simon
