GNU bug report logs - #55499
excessively large manifests due to propagation

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 14:02:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 55499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 55499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55499: excessively large manifests due to propagation
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 06:35:32 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> A profile consisting only of four R packages (r-seurat, r-cistopic,
>> r-monocle3, and r-cicero-monocle3) results in a “manifest” file that
>> weighs 7.1MB.  At the MDC I repeatedly encountered manifest files that
>> are exceeding 24MB.
>
> Commit 93f601d97ca2d9b82c41afeb86879ee37eae39e6 provides a 12% size
> reduction on this example, and it’s backward-compatible and cheap.

Excellent!  This is a great first step.

> I’ll try and follow up with changes along the lines you describe.

Thank you!

-- 
Ricardo
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