Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 56

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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:34:58 +0200
From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>,
Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: native-inputs: Go for completeness or minimalism?
Message-ID: <86o7xi4e6l.fsf@gmail.com>
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Hi simon,

> On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 10:33, Hartmut Goebel
> <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> wrote:
> 
> > Personally I tend to minimal.  
> 
> Me too.  Being minimal is better on all aspects, IMHO.
> 
> The only drawback is indeed “guix shell -D”.  But, people developing
> can add the missing or extra packages.  To me, Guix provides the
> minimal environment for building and running one package.
> 
> Otherwise, we could imagine to create two packages.
> 
> However, there is no consensus about this “minimalism”.  For instance,
> some packages have multi-outputs which implies that “guix shell -D” is
> not minimal.
> 

We could have packages recommend other packages to make this discovery
easier for users, like Arch's opt-depends.

> Cheers,
> simon