Re: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> skribis:

> We may wish to utilize multiple package outputs to a greater
> extent. Some Guix packages already have bin, doc, and lib outputs. We
> could make it a policy to split this for all packages.

There’s some a policy already, though maybe not universally followed;
see point 8 at
<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html>.

> I also wonder how much of the space is taken by debug output. Would
> making graft derivations substitutable help?

Graft derivations are not substitutable because it’s usually faster to
“build” them locally than to download them (it depends on package size,
hard disk performance, and network performance; my experience with an
SSD is that grafting is always faster than downloading, even over FTTH.)

Ludo’.