Re: Add murmur.

[Marius Bakke]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> On 17-02-09 23:50:02, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > On 17-02-09 17:50:04, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> >> Hi ng0!
>> >> 
>> >> address@hidden skribis:
>> >> 
>> >> > This patch adds an proposed change to mumble, murmur as an output.
>> >> 
>> >> I’m reluctant to “non-standard” outputs like this.  The reason for
>> >> multiple outputs should be to reduce the closure size for standards
>> >> uses.  What do we gain by not included murmurd in “out” in this case?
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Ludo’.
>> >
>> > We remove the server component (murmurd) from the client component
>> > (mumble).  I imagine that if you run murmurd, you will not want mumble
>> > in the same user profile.  And if you run mumble, you probably don't
>> > want murmurd.  The default is a client, adding murmur output is logical.
>> > But this is just my view.. I would not want a server unless I explicitly
>> > expressed my intention to have it
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> 
>> I think the only reason to separate things usually is size, not
>> “aesthetics.”  So I’d be in favor of keeping both in the same output if
>> there’s no size problem.
>>
>
> Of course this is a theoretic issue, but the separation of server+client
> where applicable when the nature of an application allows it makes sense
> to me.

What does `guix size` say about mumble:murmur compared to mumble:out? If
the server does not depend on any graphical features, I think a separate
output makes sense. mumble alone is ~1GiB.

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