Nguyễn Gia Phong <mcsi...@disroot.org> skribis: > On 2023-01-04 at 08:11+01:00, Reza Housseini wrote: >> What about size? Does [propagating all build inputs] >> not bloat up profile sizes? > > I'm new to Guix, but aren't both build inputs > and propagated build inputs required at run time? > IIUC the only difference is that the propagated ones' env > is, ehm, propagated all the way up instead of just > to the direct dependee.
No, inputs are not necessarily available at run time. An input is kept at run time (as a “reference”) if and only if guix-daemon finds a reference to it in the build product. Ludo’.
