Re: Canonical-packages restoration.

2020-06-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> What if, instead, we removed those “canonical” packages entirely from >> the reference graph? Do you think that’s an option? > > It seems to be a better option! So, as I did remove most of the explicit > references to 'canonical-packages' the only references

Re: Canonical-packages restoration.

2020-06-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Ludo! > What if, instead, we removed those “canonical” packages entirely from > the reference graph? Do you think that’s an option? It seems to be a better option! So, as I did remove most of the explicit references to 'canonical-packages' the only references left are implicit. A good

Re: Canonical-packages restoration.

2020-06-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > With f30d84d32db0f4f6cb84e139868e1727a7dc0a51 and > dfc8ccbf5da96a67eb1cade499f0def21e7fdb02, I did remove most of the > "canonical-package" calls because they were breaking system > cross-compilation. > > Now, I'd like to somehow restore them, using the new

Re: Canonical-packages restoration.

2020-06-09 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Jan, > Just a quick question: why?; would that reduce a system's closure size? Yes mostly, even if the gains are not huge (~100MiB). However, I feel like its easier the tackle the system closure size issue if we get rid of the "noise". Thanks, Mathieu

Re: Canonical-packages restoration.

2020-06-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mathieu Othacehe writes: > With f30d84d32db0f4f6cb84e139868e1727a7dc0a51 and > dfc8ccbf5da96a67eb1cade499f0def21e7fdb02, I did remove most of the > "canonical-package" calls because they were breaking system > cross-compilation. > > Now, I'd like to somehow restore them Just a quick question:

Canonical-packages restoration.

2020-06-09 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, With f30d84d32db0f4f6cb84e139868e1727a7dc0a51 and dfc8ccbf5da96a67eb1cade499f0def21e7fdb02, I did remove most of the "canonical-package" calls because they were breaking system cross-compilation. Now, I'd like to somehow restore them, using the new "let-system". My idea is to define