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"guix pull" requires graphical libraries

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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 63050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63050: Reducing the closure size of Graphviz
Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 11:00:06 +0200

Hi,

On Wed, 03 May 2023 at 21:50, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> -     (list libxrender
> -           libx11
> -           gts
> +     (list gts
>             gd
>             guile-3.0                    ;Guile bindings
> -           pango
>             fontconfig
>             freetype
>             libltdl
> -           libxaw
>             expat
>             libjpeg-turbo
>             libpng))

Ah that’s better than my proposal elsewhere. ;-)


> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix size graphviz | tail -1
> total: 183.6 MiB
> $ guix size graphviz | tail -1
> total: 242.3 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But I suspect we’d still need the full-blown variant for things like
> xdot.

Yeah, we could have graphviz (with libx11) and graphviz-minimal (without
libx11) and make Guix depends on graphviz-minimal.  WDYT?


Cheers,
simon

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