Subject: [bug#28698] [PATCH] gnu: Enable support for libpurple in bitlbee.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 17:00:12 +0200

Hi Tomáš!

Tomáš Čech <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/messaging.scm (bitlbee): Add pidgin input, add more configure
>   flags.

I think it’s a good idea, but it’s taking a lot of extra space:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix size bitlbee |tail -1
total: 176.5 MiB
$ guix size bitlbee pidgin |tail -1
total: 668.0 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

What about adding a “lib” output to Pidgin?  BitlBee would depend on
that rather than on the whole Pidgin.

Thanks,
Ludo’.