On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 02:20:52PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hi! > > Quite a few packages depend on grep to have PCRE support (e.g. freebayes). > > Similarly, some packages (magit-todos) depend on git to be built with > PCRE support. > Compiling Git with USE_LIBPCRE2 would fix this. > > I understand that adding PCRE support to those packages might increase > their closure size, which might not be desirable for such fundamental > packages. > > What about grep-minimal and git-minimal packages then?
We do actually already have a git-minimal, it's used for git-fetch references :) 'guix size git' => 411 MiB 'guix size git pcre' => 413 MiB 'guix size grep' => 71.4 MiB 'guix size grep pcre' => 71.4 MiB Looks like a good idea to me. -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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