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"guix pull" requires graphical libraries

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 63050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#63050: "guix pull" requires graphical libraries
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 15:10:11 +0200

Hi,

Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Sat, May 20, 2023 at 06:12:47PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> > The closure size reduction is substantial:
>> > $ ./pre-inst-env guix size graphviz | tail -1
>> > total: 183.6 MiB
>> > $ guix size graphviz | tail -1
>> > total: 242.3 MiB
>> > But I suspect we’d still need the full-blown variant for things like
>> > xdot.
>> Here’s a proposal:
>>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63610
>
> Typo? The issue is not found.

Typo on your side then?  :-)

> Note that I do not care so much about the closure size, but about the
> number of packages that are needed to just build guix (although of course
> the two are related). Or otherwise said, the dependencies for "guix pull".

Yes, understood.  Graphviz is not in the closure anyway, it’s a
build-only dependency.

With commit 9fa92acbf0c4dbc734ac7d83b31bd6d12e09a401 this is mostly
fixed.  There’s still another path leading to libx11 though:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix graph --path guix libx11
guix <at> 1.4.0-6.dc5430c
guile-avahi <at> 0.4.1
avahi <at> 0.8
dbus <at> 1.14.0
libx11 <at> 1.8.1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

(The same applies to “guix pull”.)

Not sure what can be done about it.

Ludo’.

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