Subject: Re: bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:37:50 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> It would also be pretty bad for closure size:
>
> $ guix size guile-git | tail -1
> total: 106.6 MiB
> $ guix size guile-git git-minimal | tail -1
> total: 169.8 MiB
>
> It’s also not clear concretely how we’d add that dependency.  Try
> invoking ‘git’ from $PATH and print a warning if it doesn’t work?

A solution to this particular problem is coming:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65866

Ludo’.