Hi! Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 at 16:18, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> It would also be pretty bad for closure size: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> $ guix size guile-git | tail -1 >> total: 106.6 MiB >> $ guix size guile-git git-minimal | tail -1 >> total: 169.8 MiB >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> 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? >> But then, what about applications like Cuirass and hpcguix-web? > > I think we can rely on something like, > > guix shell -C git-minimal -- git gc We’re talking about the implementation of a cache (meant to speed up operations), that would actually fill said cache plus do a whole bunch of expensive operations? Nah. :-) Ludo’.
