GNU bug report logs - #27635
[PATCH] gnu: emacs: Build with imagemagick support.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Alex Vong <alexvong1995 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:06:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
Cc: Alex Vong <alexvong1995 <at> gmail.com>, 27635 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#27635] [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Build with imagemagick support.
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:29:44 +0200
Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> There a few big packages showing up in the profile; we should try to
>> make them smaller, perhaps by introducing separate outputs:
>> Thoughts?
>
> I have to go through the dependency tree carefully to figure out which
> package to split. Do you have any suggestions off the bat?

ImageMagick and Graphviz are pretty big.  For the latter, ISTR there are
a couple of executables that are surprisingly big; perhaps the solution
would be to figure out why it is the case and strip them somehow, if
possible.

Ghostscript and icu4c are also rather big.

Ludo’.




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